[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Verizon is a very aggressive company and pretty much have the best LTE network there is, most coverage, less dropouts than most other carriers. I have friends that cannot get a signal at their home and at the end of their driveway, just begin to get a signal. Upstate New York, I have not been able to talk to Kim in months because of this. But do I need cell service in the Colorado Rockies, Death Vally, or in the middle of the Ohio cornfields? Probably not. But the Verizon high speed LTE is really, really good. On par with cable modem, over 20Mbps and that is extremely fast. Great for hotspot and tether.

AT&T, Sprint, Metro, Straight Talk, T-Mobile, gosh there are so many of them, see the Big List. I went to Verizon to see where I stand with my Plan and of course, have no contract. [MENTION=5362796]Dwillian[/MENTION] was having a problem understanding each so I went to find all answers today at Verizon.

Plan: This is the type and limit on any and all services that you receive. Everyone has a Plan, but not everyone has a contract. The Plan determines your monthly bill costs for services; data in Kb or Mb per month, cellular in minutes, and in some cases, how many text messages you can use. Unlimited is one option for plans and is shown in the attached Verizon Plan Sheet. Unlimited is only available for cell use meaning unlimited minutes of talk time. ALL of the Data plans have limits unless you have Unlimited Data from before they stopped giving it out and stayed with them. Mine is all unlimited Everything and costs $120 per month before taxes and insurance. I got a copy of the currently available Verizon Plans List from Verizon today, scanned to pdf, and have attached to this Post. Click below for your copy of the Verizon Everything Plan List and cost as a pdf file. This is for Florida in the 33064 area code, but should be similar enough everywhere Verizon has service and coverage.

Contract: This is how and where you get your phone from Verizon. You can get a super kickass smartphone, tablet, home phone, or cheapie phone on a contract. After all, you need a phone. But to get a fantastic new phone like the Samsung Galaxy Note 4 like Dwillian in my area would cost $200 down and $25 extra on my bill a month for 2 years to pay for the phone. Otherwise that Note 4 would have to be purchased from them at full retail, $699.00 without a contract.

My plan is Unlimited Everything. I got this from before when they used to offer it. If I were to take a contract, a contract would require that I select a currently available Plan. Since NONE of the available plans have unlimited data, I would lose that perk. I would only want a contract to get an expensive phone, pay a small down payment, and then pay off a little each month so I could afford a new $700 and take 2 years to pay for it.

Can I keep Unlimited Data and still get a new phone? Yes. But I would have to buy the phone at full retail price from Verizon, OR, buy any cellphone, anywhere, that is not lost or stolen, that is a Verizon Phone, and have it put on my account. So if I wanted the S5 (Nice, terrific phone, powerful. But not the huge gorgeous screen like the Note 4. Is rootable and can be rommed though.), I would have to look for one online and make sure it is a Verizon branded phone, then I can buy it, take it to the store, have it put on my account, and pay nothing except the same bill I always had.

As much as I want a cheaper bill, I will probably leave this one alone and keep it. Save up and look for a nicer phone that I can afford and root. That Samsung Galaxy S5 looks pretty darned good. Let's make sure and see the SPECS for it. WOW! That is NICE! Quad core 2.5GHz CPU, 2 GB RAM. 32GB internal sdcard, and can take any ext-sdcard. And, as nice as it is, it is not top of the food chain like the Note 4, currently not rootable. Meaning there is a possibility of me saving up to buy one, maybe at Amazon or someplace I can be sure of. OMG, they are full retail at Amazon. I will have to check eBay or look for a used one.

That's it man. I found out all I need to know. Now I am late for dinner, have a "complaining kitty", and a computer for a client seriously infected with ArcadeParlor virus. I cannot do this work hungry and irritated like this so let me go eat dinner and see what the cat wants. Probably ate all her dinner and wants "kitty snack" (Purina Cat Chow). Hope this helps. Thanks to all of you for your help, advice, and support! :good:

General Update on CM11:

I love CM11 and like to report quirks or things I notice. Currently running Build 02/02 for many weeks now. I never reboot or shut off my phone. Sometimes I must reboot it to cure abnormal behavior but this is not common. Today my Google Voice Typing was slow and all over the map. Putting in the word "Period" instead of the actual punctuation marks. Repeating what I say twice and getting it horribly wrong. Using lower case letter i instead up upper case I when talking. Rebooted the phone, all better now. This is the third time in several weeks I have had to reboot. No wipe or anything, just a vanilla reboot. I forget what the last two reason were but could go search back for it. Not worth it. Sometimes like any other computer gadget, you simply have to reboot it to restore optimum performance. Will keep you updated if this becomes common, developed a pattern, or is noteworthy in any other way.

* I think there is a memory leak in CM11 causing these needs to reboot in order to restore performance. I have seen this before in PCs and Android is no different. Once the memory fills up with stuff that is not properly released when no longer in use, stuff like this happens. A reboot always will clear out memory. Shame, earlier versions I could run for up to 2 months and never had to reboot, ever. But this is really not "terrible", just an annoyance when I have to reboot and am in a hurry.