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Worth Sensation or wait

I have a HD2 with Dorimanx CM7 MAGLDR. I need a new toy, I was thinking of getting a used HTC Sensation off Criagslist. Instead of using my, upgrade with TMobile. So I, can wait for HTC Ruby or Samsung Hercules in October. Is a Sensation worth the troubl. Thanks!

It is definitely worth it.
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Agreed. Definitely worth it.
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Wait. Nothing special when it was released, and certainly nothing special now when SGS2/Nexus Prime/other phones are coming out soon.

The Janitor Mop said:
Wait. Nothing special when it was released, and certainly nothing special now when SGS2/Nexus Prime/other phones are coming out soon.
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TOTALLY agree... nothing special.

The Sensation is an okay phone.....just nothing special. I still prefer my rooted Vibrant that I handed off to my wife!

I would wait. Play with them all in the store, and choose the one you prefer or suits your needs.

I just upgraded from my HD2 to a sensation and I'm not regretting it at all. Got tired of waiting for the GS2 and Acer Iconiatab A100. By the time they come out something else awesome will be coming out. I also have faith that the full potential of this phone will be unlocked soon enough. I love the stock Rom too so I'm not hurting for that to happen right away anyways. Best phone I have owned. Awesome bettery life too!
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The S4G is great to play with for now, and all the cooked roms & mods over in Development! Or you could wait for the Nexus 3!!

As much as I love my sensation, if I were you, I'd wait for something better. Hopefully the next nexus will be out soon. Ill be preordering that first chance I get lol
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I am so tempted on getting a used sensation off craigslist just to toy witn until Hercules or prime comes out or even Samsung note
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gijoe69 said:
I am so tempted on getting a used sensation off craigslist just to toy witn until Hercules or prime comes out or even Samsung note
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Sounds like a winning bet!

I say wait. Sensation is not a perfect phone, it has problematic spots such as battery overheat and then rapid drain, often reloads, weak screen performance on a bright day. But I am still happy with it.
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RonRodex said:
I say wait. Sensation is not a perfect phone, it has problematic spots such as battery overheat and then rapid drain, often reloads, weak screen performance on a bright day. But I am still happy with it.
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I thought this phone had was really good visibility on a bright day?

RonRodex said:
I say wait. Sensation is not a perfect phone, it has problematic spots such as battery overheat and then rapid drain, often reloads, weak screen performance on a bright day. But I am still happy with it.
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Actually, in general Sensation has improved all the mentioned things compared to previous HTC phones. Soooo, just bad experience really, it's not common.
Sensation over HD2? Well, i came from Desire, and expected something out of this world, so got disappointed. The only MASSIVE improvement ove hd2 is the screen, the rest of it, well, an improvement but not the one to die for.

{LCD}Stelios said:
I thought this phone had was really good visibility on a bright day?
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Definitely not. I will never buy a LCD screen phone again, simply because LCD screens are worthless in sunlight. I certainly appreciate the qHD resolution that the Sensation has, but as soon as phones start coming out with improved SAMOLED+ (meaning fixing some issues such as odd colors) screens that also have good resolution (qHD or up), I'll be looking to switch.

Just picked up a sensation liking it so far..had trouble getting data to work had to upgrade HD2 simcard and change data plan with tmobile from smartphone unlimited to 5gb plan smartphone plan was not compatible with new network
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gijoe69 said:
Just picked up a sensation liking it so far..had trouble getting data to work had to upgrade HD2 simcard and change data plan with tmobile from smartphone unlimited to 5gb plan smartphone plan was not compatible with new network
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Smartphone unlimited most definitely does have access to the new network. All T-Mobile data plans have access to all network speeds. They just don't want to give the apn to continue using it and fed you that line of bull to force you onto an "android" plan. Try calling customer loyalty and getting this plan:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192020
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Had hd2 also, upgraded and its alright. You can definitely tell the smoothness of the sensation. But the HD2s screen was spectacular, the small bezel was amazing. It made the phone look so much bigger. The colors are better on the HD2 as well, the sensation has a red Hue.
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Just thought I'd share

I know it's kind of off topic, but what's up with this?
http://www.tmonews.com/2011/10/t-mobile-introduces-two-mytouch-by-lg-smartphones/
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that new MyTouch have the exact same specs as the current MyTouch 4G?

That's correct
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look to be mt4G wannabes by LG..dont see any improvements at all, interesting..

When I saw pics of the back side of the new MT, it looked like it didn't even have a camera flash...
I have no idea why TMO wasted their time with this. They already have a good MT4G and MT4G Slide.
Go figure. Watch us get this and no Nexus Prime. Boy will I be pissed.

I don't think these are wannabes. They are the real deal. From what I heard, htc droppes the mytouch line and lg picked it up.
To me, its the end of a great phone.
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coupetastic-droid said:
I don't think these are wannabes. They are the real deal. From what I heard, htc droppes the mytouch line and lg picked it up.
To me, its the end of a great phone.
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Couldn't agree more. I wonder if it has anything to do with the eMMC chips failing on these phones. And T-mobile wants a different manufacture

wow now mytouch is gonna suck...
why tmobile why??

To many problems. LG bought the line. Because the success or lack there of to my belief of the g2x. Just seeing what they can do.
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wow this is a pretty damn interesting move by tmobile, good thing im done with the mytouch line and now looking forward to the upcoming htc amaze or possibly even the new samsung nexus prime if that drops on tmobile lol

I must have got lucky because I have had zero problems with my phone. I even slammed it in the back hatch of my car right on the screen with the latch and all it did was rip the screen protector. I have been flash happy with it from day one changed the radio countless times. I test every ROM that I can find (some of them so bad I'm lucky it still works) and never one problem with the phone. I agree the new LG phones look kinda cheap I don't think they could take the beating I have done to this thing. I'm going to stay with HTC if a 4 year old a 2 year old and myself can't break this phone they did something very right.

Dragonswithin said:
I must have got lucky because I have had zero problems with my phone. I even slammed it in the back hatch of my car right on the screen with the latch and all it did was rip the screen protector. I have been flash happy with it from day one changed the radio countless times. I test every ROM that I can find (some of them so bad I'm lucky it still works) and never one problem with the phone. I agree the new LG phones look kinda cheap I don't think they could take the beating I have done to this thing. I'm going to stay with HTC if a 4 year old a 2 year old and myself can't break this phone they did something very right.
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+1 i've had my phone since February, have the bad chip and and good screen, have flashed roms and radios like a crack flasher and have had no problems..not to mention, my screen protector came off a month ago and still not a single scratch on the screen. This phone is rock solid and I hope the next phones in the mytouch line continue to be the quality devices that they have been thus far
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I bought my HD2 at a pawnshop. So far so good after countless flashes. I have been on a month to month with Tmobile for almost a year now.

marseillesw said:
+1 i've had my phone since February, have the bad chip and and good screen, have flashed roms and radios like a crack flasher and have had no problems..not to mention, my screen protector came off a month ago and still not a single scratch on the screen. This phone is rock solid and I hope the next phones in the mytouch line continue to be the quality devices that they have been thus far
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Same here. My mt4g hasn't let me down in one single way. And I think Ive flashed almost every rom on xda.

marseillesw said:
+1 i've had my phone since February, have the bad chip and and good screen, have flashed roms and radios like a crack flasher and have had no problems..not to mention, my screen protector came off a month ago and still not a single scratch on the screen. This phone is rock solid and I hope the next phones in the mytouch line continue to be the quality devices that they have been thus far
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lol i don't even HAVE a screen protector, and i still don't have any scratches on. this phone sure is beast, no LG crap can best it.

Rumors say that HTC AMAZE is a successor to HTC's myTouch line.
I will never buy LG product personally.

AntonJart said:
Rumors say that HTC AMAZE is a successor to HTC's myTouch line.
I will never buy LG product personally.
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That phone looks awesome. If I had an upgrade, I would've picked it up when it comes out.
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Got to play with the amaze today while in a T-Mobile store. Its nothing that special. Build quality seemed nice and screen was good but overall wasn't too impressed. Ran quadrent side by side with my phone. The amaze got 2200 something while my mytouch did 2400 something without being over clocked. Although, the amaze did have about 12 megs down and 3 up which is nice. Sense 3.5 was kinda cool too but like I said nothing too spectacular.
One thing tho, it was fun showing the rep how I could hit 3400 on quadrant with fauxs kernel oc'd to 1904 MHz ( or whatever that setting is.

It sucks
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mark manning said:
Got to play with the amaze today while in a T-Mobile store. Its nothing that special. Build quality seemed nice and screen was good but overall wasn't too impressed. Ran quadrent side by side with my phone. The amaze got 2200 something while my mytouch did 2400 something without being over clocked. Although, the amaze did have about 12 megs down and 3 up which is nice. Sense 3.5 was kinda cool too but like I said nothing too spectacular.
One thing tho, it was fun showing the rep how I could hit 3400 on quadrant with fauxs kernel oc'd to 1904 MHz ( or whatever that setting is.
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im almost 100% certain the htc amaze ships with sense 3.0, says so on their website...
and also keep in mind the amaze was 100% stock, and yours was modified, so imagine the potential of a phone with not only a faster processor, but dual core, and 256mb more ram, just saying...

Amaze 4G

Anyone think its worth selling the sensation and paying a little bit more of money to "upgrade" to the amaze?
Other than the HSPA+, are there any other major differences?
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Well its has more ram...the screen looks much better, better camera and no its not just the software its a better sensor and lens. The build feels nicer and it also has the dedicated camera,video buttons. And a larger battery .Is it enough for you to upgrade to...that's all up to you...if you want those extra features then yes.
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not that big of a difference..both phones do the same thing..

mouzaihem said:
Anyone think its worth selling the sensation and paying a little bit more of money to "upgrade" to the amaze?
Other than the HSPA+, are there any other major differences?
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Depends where you are - what network are you on etc..

hello00 said:
not that big of a difference..both phones do the same thing..
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was thinking the same only thing i see handy is the camera button and the increased ram

If I get a good price for the Sensation I'm going to go for it, can't hurt
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Yup me too, if your city is lit up for 42mbps. That alone makes it worthwhile, too bad Philly is only 14mbps sux balls
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Today I went to three tmobile store and two of them didn't had it yet but one on them did, the rep was playing with it, I asked him about it and he let me play with it and I honestly didn't any speed or anything. To me felt like a Sensation plus the camera buttons/lens. Speed wise felt just the same.
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Checked it out at the Tmobile store today. I was thinking of giving my wife my Sensation and upgrading to it. While it is a nice looking phone, I was somewhat underwhelmed. Firstly, it could not get a data connection, despite showing 3 bars. My Sensation got a better connection. One of the mains reasons I wanted to upgrade was due to the faster network speeds and here I couldn't even test it out. The camera is nice and took fast pictures in the continuous mode. Still on the fence about it and I am not sure what kind of development it will get and how long it will take to get root.

azsl1326 said:
Checked it out at the Tmobile store today. I was thinking of giving my wife my Sensation and upgrading to it. While it is a nice looking phone, I was somewhat underwhelmed. Firstly, it could not get a data connection, despite showing 3 bars. My Sensation got a better connection. One of the mains reasons I wanted to upgrade was due to the faster network speeds and here I couldn't even test it out. The camera is nice and took fast pictures in the continuous mode. Still on the fence about it and I am not sure what kind of development it will get and how long it will take to get root.
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I'd say that you might want to wait at least 1 month before buying it.
Prime will most likely be out by then and Galaxy S2 as well, So you will have 3 phones to compare and decide.

Is the Sensation still worth?

I was wondering if the Sensation is still worth buying? Browsing through this forum I found many people having some problem or the other..is it really a bug magnet or what?
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Oh yeah still a good phone and getting better
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craven667 said:
Oh yeah still a good phone and getting better
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This is the longest I've ever owned a phone lol. If I can get a good deal I might jump to the One S in a few months for the camera and the body but i really love my Sensation

Awesome device...Get it before it's too late

And what about the problems
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I've had my Sensation since this past August and after many hours spent tinkering, trying out custom ROMs, the only problem I've ever had is that I don't see an icon when I get voicemails. I saw the notifications initially but after unlocking it at the end of that August I haven't seen the icon again.
If something happened to mine, I would consider another model but I'd probably try and scope out a good deal on another Sensation 4G. It's a great phone!

considering the low price it goes for on the used market its completely worth it!!!

Does it beat the EVO 3d?
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They're almost the same phones - Evo3D has dual cameras, 3D display and larger battery (can be bought for the Sensation as well) and 1 GB RAM (instead of 768).
Take your pick.

It's very worth, due to the lower price. I like my sensation

It's a good phone, you can get them quite cheap off eBay, mine cost very little (comparatively speaking).

Great phone, still loads of support from devs
I haven't experiences any problem like dust under the screen or the like. Everything works great, and sense4 functions well.

If you want a used and cheap phone get the sensation. But i advise you, if you're going to spend big then look for other phones like the Galaxy Nexus or wait for the GS3.

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And what about the problems
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I've had mine since october of last year and haven't experienced any problems at all. Is there anything specific you are worried about?

my first android phone and its really great with the ARHD by mike1986

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And what about the problems
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What problems? Before to buy Sensation I watched a lot of videos on Youtube, read a lot of fourms etc - haven't find any problems, and while using also there's no problems. And mine is rooted and Sense 4 is just great, no need for One S.
Sensation is way to go

so i just got myself a Sensation XE, exchanged my One V since that was a good performer yet still had many defects, and woahhhh i'm absolutely LOVING this XE!
Thnx to everybody for their replies! i'm completely happy with my choice and jus can't stop lookin at the big boy..

Yep. I thought it was a bugfest here too but since the price started to get really cheap last month I bought one and surprisingly it was well worth it. Very fast and responsive on ICS (specially when on Custom rom). Development is superb too. Only issue I have is the poor battery life but these can be solve by buying an aftermarket battery (something like anker or chichitec w/c has 1900 mah).
I bought mine for $250 last month
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HTC Sensation vs HTC Amaze with ICS

Now that ICS is available for both the Sensation and the Amaze I'm wondering if its worth it to pay the extra $200+ for an Amaze? I can buy a used Sensation for less than $100, but the Amaze is still upwards of $300.
What I'm mostly looking for is a good camera to be my day to day point and shooter. Is the Sensation's camera good enough?
The HSPA+ on the Amaze is very tempting, but is it a considerable speed boost?

Gazelle.com buys the Sensation used for $140 so if you can get one cheaper then that its a deal.
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I found a used Sensation down the street from me on craigslist for $75. I'm not sure about the condition, but it should be fine. I'd just like to have the nicer camera of the Amaze.

wtf? where the hell do you live? hope the screen/digitizer is ok and imei is not blacklisted.
in my neck of the woods, sensations go for 250 on average (~240-300), and amazes are 300 on the low end (300-400).
big selling point for the amaze is hspa+ 42 if that's of importance to you. sensation is hspa 14, which gets around 2-7mbps real world.
I've never played with an amaze in person, but I hear the physical size of the sensation is better.

I'm in Virginia. There's one used Sensation for $75 on cl and another used for $150.

Jesus buy both of them if they're legit. Tell on forums or eBay. Profit and buy the amaze
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Hawkee said:
I'm out on the east coast in Virginia. There's one used Sensation for $75 on cl and another used for $150.
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That one Is spam bro if you live in Hampton Roads area
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And I live in va on cl HTC amaze goes for 275-350 highest but beware the HTC amaze has allot of flaws from what my friend has told me one is GPS IS POOR death grip and the phone tends to over heat under heavy use.
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Have a friend with an Amaze -- he has no problems with it, but a lot of white light comes in the bottom of the screen, and the glass sticks up higher than the frame, which kinda sucks if you dont use a case
Overall, its very similar to a Sensation -- perhaps the camera is a bit better

ziddey said:
wtf? where the hell do you live? hope the screen/digitizer is ok and imei is not blacklisted.
in my neck of the woods, sensations go for 250 on average (~240-300), and amazes are 300 on the low end (300-400).
big selling point for the amaze is hspa+ 42 if that's of importance to you. sensation is hspa 14, which gets around 2-7mbps real world.
I've never played with an amaze in person, but I hear the physical size of the sensation is better.
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I have an SGS 2 that is hspa+ 42 and I consistently get over 20 mbps download speeds compared to the Wife's Sensation 4G which is the hspa+ 14 which sees about 10 mbps on the average. So that's a major point to make between the Sensation and the Amaze...
But we live in east Seminole county in FL so obviously speeds will vary ...
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A difference of $200 is probably not worth it unless you absolutely need the higher speed internet.
Maybe if the difference falls to $75-100.
just my opinion

You probably won't even realize the speed difference between the two. Especially if you live in a congested city or town. I'd say the Sensation looks better than the Amaze.

Not to mention, there's a mod in the dev forum that allows u to flash the amaze cam on the senny..more development on the senny, sense 4 on the senny..im already amazed with my sensation lol...just my 2 cents...
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Get the sensation. My wife has the amaze and the dev is awful. Sensation still has awesome dev going on. I haven't even rooted her phone because I can't without voiding the warranty. (She's accident prone). The amaze has a better camera and dl speed but in the real world we both use wifi so it doesn't matter. The dev on the sensation is keeping it in the top 5 phones out still.
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I believe the Amaze has wirse battery life, so I'd get the Sensation.
You can upgrade from the stock 1520MaH battery to a 1730MaH model from the Sensation XE.
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Dev is not extremely important to me. I'd rather just let the phone be and not worry about tinkering with different roms. As for the battery I was looking at a 1900 MaH on Amazon that apparently really helps the Amaze. I do like the Sensation, but I'm having a hard time finding one for a reasonable price. $300 for an Amaze is very tempting.
Thanks for all the feedback folks!

Hawkee said:
Dev is not extremely important to me. I'd rather just let the phone be and not worry about tinkering with different roms.
Thanks for all the feedback folks!
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XDA might not be the right place for you.
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wildcontigo said:
XDA might not be the right place for you.
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LOL yea
the amaze might get more dev with ICS soon but it will never be anything like the sensation. the pros dont outweigh the cons for me
pros being wide-angle camera lens, louder speaker, and of course, more ram..
i dont see any other real upgrade.. maybe the deathgrip thing we have but apparently they have it too. this generation of HTC devices had a lot of manufacturing defects i guess

amaze build quality is amazing

The Amaze is very sturdy, by far has a superior built quality than the Sensation.
The camera is great and has bands that support extremely fast download speeds.