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[Verizon Droid Charge] lukegman:
I had to update... The unlimited everything for 50 was the basic phone... My plan didn't work... Lol... Oh well... I changed a line to a basic phone for ten a month and kept my unlimited old plan... I am not getting a cheaper month to month but I upgraded for 200 and the basic phone line for 10 a month cost 240 over 24 months...and I got a stupid little basic phone laying around the house but it's ten extra dollars to buy out the contract and I won't have the stupid little phone(so keeping it) ... I would really like to win one against the phone company... Lol...
[Verizon Droid Charge] lazarus0000:
Aaawww mmmaaannn... This totally sucks! I don't know any of you from Adam's house cat but I have loved reading what all of you have to say & the advice you have to give. Many, many times, it's what's made the difference between a totally disappointing POS & a phone that just makes me stop & wonder where the world is going with this much computing power in the hands of one man, let alone anyone who wants it. (geek alert!) Surely the Singularity can't be far away...

But this sounds like a big goodbye...

So here's my $.02 worth... I'm making a list of the features I want. Replaceable battery, NFC, at least dual core (preferably quad), 2 gigs RAM. I'm sure there's more. But the battery & the RAM is most important - that and SD support. More important than ANY of that, but a given nonetheless, is unlocked bootloader and lots of development here on XDA.

THAT'S what's most disappointing about this phone! Those bastiges @ Samsung & their hardware partners have managed to handicap this phone by keeping necessary software proprietary... I don't know that I can go to yet another Samsung - I didn't want to in the 1st place & got talked into it (I wanted the Thunderbolt and look! - it just updated to ICS....). Unfortunately, the S3 seems to meet all my requirements. I'm praying something else comes out soon that means being able to stay away from yet another Samsung disappointment...

Keeping my eyes open & waiting til Christmas when anything more than 2 months old is basically free or just about, and upgrading then. By that time, I'll be able to have what is state of the art today for el cheapo price.

I changed to the Family Share plan a while back. It was scary as hell but I payed close attention to my data usage over a few months, realized I'm often in a position to use WIFI and got the plan that works, saving $30 / month in the process.

I'll be keeping my eyes open on the Charge forums in the meantime. I know things are really slowing down here but there's always good advice to be had and maybe a few more tweaks to be made. But just wanted to be sure to thank all of you guys! Without your input / help, this phone would have been thrown though a window long ago. My fiancee is still 100% stock and I truly can't understand how she deals with it. Primarily by complaining to me about how much she hates it, I guess....

Tweaked 3.2, Lazarus1225, rfs, Red JellyBean, ADW Launcher
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Lol - well to be fair there are one or two more things I might try to get working - nothing groundbreaking by any means, but some more customizing types of options. The only major issue is that the themes will be a crazy pita to update with what I'm thinking, but that's how the cookie crumbles sometimes lol.

I'm not sure when I'll get around to putting it all together, but I thought I'd mention it anyway.
[Verizon Droid Charge] lazarus0000:
Here's an issue. I don't believe it's from Tweaked but you might know a fix...

I'm dropping texts like crazy! I know it's happening to the fiancee's as well and given that she's on pure stock, I'm pretty sure it's a Samsung (or possibly Verizon) issue. But I'll hear the notification sound and look and have nothing there. Thought it might be an issue with the SMS replacement app (Handscent) and have subsequently uninstalled it. Now I'm just using SMS Popup. But the problem persists. Ideas?
[Verizon Droid Charge] dSlice:
Try Ghostly SMS... It catches messages that don't fully make it to your phone.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jco23:
This what I've been yearning for.
[Verizon Droid Charge] stueycaster:
Am I going to be able to switch the sim card from my Charge to the Note 2 I'm getting this afternoon?

Update: Never mind. The older phones use the big card and the Note uses the micro sim card.

Sent from my SCH - I510 on Tweaked 3.2 + Lazarus + dSlice Tweaks
[Verizon Droid Charge] jlanik4:
Droid charge dying off

Its the unfortunate truth that there just isn't much support anymore. If you all want something to play around with, sbrissen made an early cm10.1 build for the charge which you can find by googling cm10.1 droid charge :laugh: Its a WIP but still, android 4.2? Never thought I'd see the day
[Verizon Droid Charge] stueycaster:
I got my Note 2. I'm actually getting a usable signal at work. It obviously has better radios than the Charge did.
[Verizon Droid Charge] p2kmafia:
My roommates girlfriend has the note 2 and I don't know how she uses it as she is TINY but she absolutely loves it so I let her do her thing. As far as new phones go, it's kind of a bummer that my charge broke when it did with so many new phones coming out within the next couple of months, but at least my gnex will last me quite some time and it was definitely worth the price I paid for it. As far as theming it goes, one click in the play store and another in the settings and my whole UI is changed, I had no idea of the power of CyanogenMod until I began using it. So many settings I don't even know what to do with myself. No SD card is kind of a bummer but I kept dropping my charge and lost 2 class 10 sd cards so I'm kind of over it haha.

Good luck to the rest of you, enjoy your new phones when you get them!
[Verizon Droid Charge] lazarus0000:
Rooted & ROMed?

Well...? What's the verdict? I'm a Samsung hater @ this point but always willing to keep am open mind. Looks like I'm going Note II or S3 in a couple / few months. But looking for super active development (like my original Moto Droid), CYANOGEN MOD (OMG - Yes!), and no more of these show stoppers like missing RILs, that sort of crap...

Thus far, the Note & S3 seem to be the only ones that have the have the hardware that I want with, on the surface @ least, the above mentioned items. Just hate the size of those two models (beside the fact that they're Samsung....). Wish there was something the size of the Charge...

Tweaked 3.2, Lazarus1225, rfs, Red JellyBean, ADW Launcher
[Verizon Droid Charge] dSlice:
ParanoidAndroid is doing amazing work right now. I'd keep them in the ROM list too as well as AOKP.

Sent from my AOSPA N7 controlled by Metallice's a36 Kernel.
[Verizon Droid Charge] stueycaster:
I've been checking out the GN2 forums and there's so much going on there it freaks me out. I don't know where to begin. I guess it's going to take a lot of research but I do plan on at least rooting, debloating and ad blocking. This phone runs so sweet I don't feel the need to do anything else. I just can't stand the bloat and ads or I would be happy with it pure stock. Wish me luck.
[Verizon Droid Charge] chefthomas99:
Wish I had your problem....

But I'm holding out strong until August when it is my upgrade. Something sweet will be out..

Just can't justify paying a couple hundred for a phone to play with now when I got an upgrade coming soon.
[Verizon Droid Charge] lukegman:
I feel like you... I will be running my note 2 for a while stock... Mainly because it does a lot and if I want to customize look I will just use adw or one of the launchers...When the time is right and it won't keep up I will root
[Verizon Droid Charge] stueycaster:
The Note 2 gets great battery life like the RAZR Maxx does. I've been beating on my battery a lot today. Notice the screen on time and no wifi. Also the signal where I work has always been a bad problem for me.

If you can swing it get a Note 2. It's an awesome phone.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jco23:
I felt the same way until they made me realize that if I do upgrade, I would be forced to go with their "share everything" plan, thus increasing my costs by $30/month. however, I was told that everyone will be forced to share everything by the start of 2014.
[Verizon Droid Charge] thechaoz:
Really? Where did you hear this? I've been with Verizon a while but have no allegiance to them. If they boot me off unlimited for buying my old phone I'll just go to sprint. They have no 4G where I am but I don't really care that much plus better battery life anyway. I already have an upgrade available but bought my charge outright after tanking my x2 which I absolutely hated.

Now laz is in here saying he hates samsung and everyone tells me that moto is good but the X's were a joke. I will say my signal and wifi is much worse with samsung even though I've tweaked this phone to it's absolute max
[Verizon Droid Charge] jco23:
Vzw told me. Call them, or chat with them online.
[Verizon Droid Charge] sasquatch080:
I had the s3 for about a month and then me being the good husband that I am, gave it to my wife. Came back to the charge for a like a month then I found a great deal on craigslist for a gnex. for 150$. When the note2 came out I wanted that phone so bad but couldn't afford it. Now I'm very happy with the gnex after reading about Ubuntu coming to the gnex soon. Oh yea by the way, we already running 4.2.2. So that's another path y'all can consider. Go with the Gnex. Radio is not that bad.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
I very much enjoyed my gnex - if it wasn't for the fact that my phone got gaffled right before Christmas by crappy family I never would've bought the note 2 really.
[Verizon Droid Charge] stueycaster:
I know you're on TMobile now Dwitherell but do you know much about the roms available for the Verizon Note 2. As in which would be most like Tweaked? Do roms have to be carrier specific?
[Verizon Droid Charge] lukegman:
I had to Google gaffled... :confused:
[Verizon Droid Charge] xdadevnube:
If not for the all-star devs, this phone would have been a lesson in frustration. On the plus side, I learned much more about Android and will be better off in the long run having striven to improve performance. The way I see it, there will still be people lurking the Charge forums. They may seldom visit, but they will still be around.

Phones have been advancing so rapidly that it is hard not to give in to the temptation. On the other hand, I don't think you can totally kill off the Charge- it is still a decent phone.
[Verizon Droid Charge] stueycaster:
I agree. I learned quite a bit trying to make the Charge run good. But now it sits totally unused. I'm really glad to have gotten away from it. My new phone runs flawlessly. I've rooted it and debloated and blocked ads. I'm one step from trying out Clean Rom.

The main thing is I really loved the community here and I plan to keep coming in.
[Verizon Droid Charge] xdadevnube:
I picked up a Note 2 also. It is like the Charge on crack- in a good way.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Actually imnuts ported most of what I did with the TMo rom to the vzw note 2 - so look to his if you want something similar :)
[Verizon Droid Charge] stueycaster:
Thanks Dwith. I've already flashed Clean Rom but I'll definitely look at that. I hope I can flash it with TWRP. I'd rather not switch to CWM. What I really miss is Tweaktools. Is that a part of it?" Do you know the name of it?

Update: I found Tweaked 1.3 over on the TMo Note 2 forum. I miss TSM Parts too.
[Verizon Droid Charge] jco23:
I miss tsm too. But it just enabled a full screen mod, and it rocks!
[Verizon Droid Charge] kintwofan:
You know you can give it a shot. Scroler has a patch for non Verizon ROMs to work on our note. I believe the mms doesn't work but you can just replace the secmms with one from our stock ROM.

By the way dwith picking the wife up a tmo note 2 tomorrow. Gonna try to convince her to let me tweak it. :)

Sent from the dark on a Note 2
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Tweaktools hasn't been implemented yet, mostly because there hasn't been a need. I'm trying out the aroma-style install approach to see how folks like that, and then I'll get to tweaktools once there are enough options out there to warrant it.
[Verizon Droid Charge] stueycaster:
Yeah I guess there really isn't much need. All of the problems the Charge had aren't here with the Note. And yeah, Aroma is pretty cool.

I haven't found the rom that Imnuts ported yet but I'll keep an eye out for it. Thanks man.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
I think he tweeted a link but hasn't posted it yet.
[Verizon Droid Charge] lazarus0000:
Start w/CyanogenMOD. Probably end there as well. If CM doesn't support it yet, get a ROM based on it.

You won't regret it. Tweaked is totally handicapped by lack of RILs. Tweaked brings the Charge up to its potential but that's not a lot of potential due to Samsung's / Qualcomm's shenanigans...

I had the Original Moto Droid - with CyanogenMOD, it was superior to this POS even though the Charge has slightly better hardware. That was due entirely to having so many awesome ROMs & Kernels to choose from.

In my opinion, unlocked hardware like S3 or Note II & CM gives you the best phone ANY money can buy. Super powerful, highly adaptable & likely to easily run Android through whatever follows Key Lime pie.

Good luck w/the Note! I'm SUPER jealous! ;)

Tweaked 3.2, Lazarus1225, rfs, Red JellyBean, ADW Launcher
[Verizon Droid Charge] thechaoz:
Wow ok thanks wasn't doubting you just curious.. I never call them unless needing a replacement phone (7 times with the x/x2)..they certainly won't be voluntarily telling you so I wouldn't of thought to ask as I've had an upgrade for a while.

I used over 6gb the last two months, play a lot of games but really do not watch many videos and maybe download a song or two... Guess I'll just ride my charge and when unlimited goes away head to sprint
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
Have fun with Aroma...I was ready to throw my monitor by the time I got it working.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Yeah I finally smartened up a bit and put together a mini aroma-stuff only zip to test the aroma-config stuff out, as I kept getting (me) stupid syntax errors. I'm pretty sure I got it all figured out as much as I need to now anyway lol
[Verizon Droid Charge] BattsNotIncld:
I jumped on the s3 last summer when I heard they were changing the data plans. Would have stayed with the Charge had they not done so or if I didn't have an upgrade to burn. Always liked it. The hardware wasn't the best but the screen was nice and it did everything I asked of it. Unfortunate that the RIL was holding it back from the android 4+ world. The user experience on ICS/JB is miles ahead of GB. You guys are lucky you still have a committed dev in dwith. Tweaked really brings the best out of the Charge.
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
He just posted it a couple of days ago. Been lurking the Note II forums since I'm going to be getting one this weekend.
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Nice to hear - hopefully you enjoy the phone!
[Verizon Droid Charge] CalPolyRock:
I've been holding our for the S4 coming out very soon.

Any word on when the Note 3 will be coming out? It seems like the note 2 has been out for a while and I wouldn't want to get an old phone (relatively speaking of course)
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
Note 2 has only been on Verizon a couple of months...only been out worldwide for about 4 month. You're looking at late in the year at the earliest. It was over a year between the Note and the Note 2.

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I've only had my Rezound since August. I can't stop upgrading.

I may have a problem...
[Verizon Droid Charge] dwitherell:
Lol - I know... my first smart phone I got 2 years ago, and this is technically my 5th (though more realistically my 4th) phone... all within the typical 2 year contract period...
[Verizon Droid Charge] stueycaster:
Wow! You guys are ate up with it. My Note 2 is just my second smart phone ever. I made a good choice for my second one huh?
[Verizon Droid Charge] kintwofan:
I'm with you on this. My first smart phone was the charge a year ago and since then I've had 7 different ones. I think I'm good now on the note 2 though... At least until the note 3 drops.
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
You guys have me beat. The N2 will be my 6th smartphone since 2007. My first was the OG iPhone. I did the Rezound upgrade on my own out of cycle (got it used). My upgrade from my Charge is coming up on Friday, so I'm using that on the N2.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kintwofan:
You sure won't regret it!

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By the way sure hope we some new development
[Verizon Droid Charge] shrike1978:
I might try to do a TW version of my Rezound AOSP kernel. I want ROW, Lionheart, and mpdecision tunables, and I don't give a crap about OC. I don't really see any kernels that exactly fit my preference on the phone right now, so I might as well make my own. I doubt I'll do any ROM development...all of my ROM development has been AOSP, and I don't have any interest in AOSP on the Note.
[Verizon Droid Charge] kintwofan:
That's perfect. ..I hope you do it. I'm running Eclipse with pbj kernel (reminds me of the charge days). I agree with you there is no need for oc on this thing and no chance of AOSP anything.
[Verizon Droid Charge] elucid:
I will be bummed if the s4 doesn't have AMOLED!
[Verizon Droid Charge] xdadevnube:
I found that the Galaxy Note II is the logical successor to the Droid Charge, assuming you can handle the size. With Perseus kernel (no AOSP version, though), it has better sound quality (STweaks allows for the same controls and Voodoo) and much better display (STweaks has a setting to bypass Samsung settings and use a setting precalibrated for sRGB). I have to say it is strange looking at accurate colors on SAMOLED!

There are some people interested in working a dual-boot method. The phone has a bootloader unlock and has AOSP support. As far as I'm concerned, the GS4 may be very easy to pass. I believe the Note 3 will finally have the first RGB stripe 1080p SAMOLED display, which may make it the ultimate phone to get!
[Verizon Droid Charge] JihadSquad:
Rumors also going around that the GS4 might drop SAMOLED because of overheating and resolution problems.
[Verizon Droid Charge] thechaoz:
I had an x, x2 (all broken, several replacements but only "bought" one. Dunked the x2 on vacation this year, bought the Charge off ebay in fall '12 and now going to the note 2. I don't need to wait for s4 etc I mean the phone is sick and will still be in two years or whatever. Plus I'm off contract so if Verizon takes away unlimited in 2014 I'm outty. I hate that Sprint doesn't have 4g where I live, but I can't be on that share whatever stuff. I'm not a huge ridiculous like some but I use about 7-8 gb a month and on the share plans it really shoots my bill up

/verizon rant
[Verizon Droid Charge] Lehocki:
Where did you hear about V taking away unlimited data from those whose contact is up and are still with Verizon in 2014?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwacker:
Hi,

I checked the web on this issue and have found it being reported on other sites but I can't seem to find the resolution, if there is one....

I received my Nexus 4 last Friday. Been digging it ever since. I came from the SG2 Skyrocket on att. I realized how much I miss the pure Android experience on a phone without the carrier's bloatware and manufacturer software.

however during the Super Bowl, my buddies and I discovered a weird bug on the phone. Upon waking up from a "long" hibernation, my time/clock is off by 20-30 minutes. Once I reboot the phone, the time is corrected. However, it's kinda weird waking up in the morning, my bedside clocks displays the correct time but when i wake up my phone, the time/clock is incorrect.

Has anyone experienced this? Does anyone know the resolution??

Much thanks..........
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Hash_Map:
It happened to me once or twice before on my N4 stock/rooted. What is your setup under Settings>Date and Time ? Sometimes when you have Automatic date & time and Automatic time zone enabled and you are out of mobile network service, the time doesn't get updated until your phone mobile connection is restored. In my opinion, this behavior smells like a bug. Post a screen shot of that settings page if you could....
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwacker:
Hi Hash,

Thanks for the feedback. I went into the settings, as you directed, and see that both Automatic date & time (use network provided time) and Automatic time zone (use network provided time zone ) are both checked.

I will try and take a picture tomorrow morning for, again, it was weird looking at my cell phone which says 5:35am when my bedside clock showed 6:00am.

Schwacker
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwacker:
My Issue with Pictures

All,

To document what is happening to my phone, I am attaching pictures to this post. The early morning picture post, I had my Wifi turned on. After the pictures were taken, I turned off WiFi an let it go int hibernation until I woke up at 6am. As you'll see in the second picture, my time/clock was way off.

I am using Beautiful Widgets for the clock but can't see that causing my issues.

Any thoughts? Hate to return the phone for I'm really loving it but don't want the phone if I can't depend on the time!

Thanks!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grubbster:
Have you tried the stock clock to see if Beautiful widgets is the issue. Try that first. Next thing I would try is to leave WiFi on during sleep and see if the issue is fixed. I would expect to have some lag after a wakeup for the clock to update but no more than 15 seconds. Good luck.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwacker:
Thanks Grubbster -- I have to admit and I'm somewhat embarrassed in doing so, I couldn't figure out how to use the stock clock on my home screen and when I couldn't figure it, I thought "hey, I purchased Beautiful Widgets...I'll just add that clock to my screen....".

FYI -- I have always left my wifi on during the night and into hibernation. Last night I had the brain child thinking maybe it's the Wifi that is causing my delays for when I first noticed the time issue on Sunday, it was while I had my Wifi on....so I thought I'd turn it off to see if the time would be correct......freaking weird....
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] grubbster:
The stock clock is a widget. Just go into your widgets, long press the clock, and drag it to your home screen. Also, does the clock in the status bar show the correct time when waking up?

Check your beautiful widget app settings to see if there is anything related to updating system settings. Maybe a frequency (10 min, 15 min, etc.) that needs to be changed.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwacker:
Ok. Thanks -- duh -- there it is. I'll try this for a day to see if this will resolve the issue.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] starscream92:
This has happened to me once, on Faux's kernel. It was my first time ever undervolting my device, and I undervolted by -100 mV (fast binned chip). It did it twice, and both during deep sleep. But the time corrected itself once I go into Settings > Date & Time and unchecking-and-rechecking the Auto Time setting.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Michealtbh:
Do you use a task killer?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Schwacker:
No. No task killer....though I have to admit....I was discussing my issue with a fellow phone geek. He believes my 2 options are: if it's an internal hardware issue, I'll need to get a new phone if it loses connection to the antenna which connects to my att network for the time/clock. Or if it's a software issue, then maybe a flash can resolve it.

I'm also going to contact Google later today and see what my return options are if, by tomorrow, I'm still experiencing this..

Thanks...
[Sony Xperia Miro, Tipo (Dual), J, E] xDev:
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