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G2X just got *****

It's been 2 weeks sense I got the phone and I'm not counting the screen bleed, dead pixel, random revolts. Today all of the sadden the phone is in my pocket an I felt its very hot I look at the phone ant its stock and looping the LG logo and turning off and turning on and no matter what I did its still the same looping it got so hot it was burning my hands do I took the battery off and and it is going back to T-Mobile and I know u guys want to defend your phones noo its good its perfect butt you'll see that this phones are manufacturing defect and I almost sold my Nexus s.
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Are you looking for sympathy?

Mi g2x is badass... Minimal screen bleed, zero restarts, good battery life, no problems at all...I LOVE IT!!!
G2X

Tee try to defend your purchase this phone is **** and I recomended to my friends when I got it they bought it and were having problems too wifi screen bleed reboots and so on I had lots of phones and this is the worst manufactured crap
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All of u guys who is defending u accepting this garbage to have screen bleeds and so many defects I was in your shoes too
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I gotta say my g2x is the ish. So maybe you got a dud just exchange it for a new one
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Gongrats anyway it's a fast phone with too many defects u will see in days
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just exchange it or return it and move on. why start a thread?

The only defect I had in 14 days was that it wasn't waterproof. But yeah, my bad.

samomamo said:
Gongrats anyway it's a fast phone with too many defects u will see in days
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thanks for sharing the battery experience. I don't know why people are getting on you for posting this. I mean, this is a forum for g2x, right? this guy has a problem with his g2x and he's sharing the experience. nothing wrong with that. it seems like some people are just fanboys for the phone. if you don't like seeing complaint posts and criticism about your phone, then why are in a forum?
anyways. i exchanged my phone 4 times and all of them had minor screen bleed. but I didn't experience any reboots or battery overheat issue.

Thanx C19932 I loved the phone too its the fastest but it doesn't mean it has to have so many problems. I tough about exchanging but I read here all the people exchanged still have problems, and I paid full price for it that's how I like the phones
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c19932 said:
thanks for sharing the battery experience. I don't know why people are getting on you for posting this. I mean, this is a forum for g2x, right? this guy has a problem with his g2x and he's sharing the experience. nothing wrong with that. it seems like some people are just fanboys for the phone. if you don't like seeing complaint posts and criticism about your phone, then why are in a forum?
anyways. i exchanged my phone 4 times and all of them had minor screen bleed. but I didn't experience any reboots or battery overheat issue.
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It's, I think, the later responses that pretty much assume everybody will have these problems and/or are ignoring them altogether that are getting to some posters.

I had to go to the store for an exchange as well. You're not the only one experiencing problems, and people can't act like you are.

Cool story bro.
samomamo said:
It's been 2 weeks sense I got the phone and I'm not counting the screen bleed, dead pixel, random revolts. Today all of the sadden the phone is in my pocket an I felt its very hot I look at the phone ant its stock and looping the LG logo and turning off and turning on and no matter what I did its still the same looping it got so hot it was burning my hands do I took the battery off and and it is going back to T-Mobile and I know u guys want to defend your phones noo its good its perfect butt you'll see that this phones are manufacturing defect and I almost sold my Nexus s.
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I got a G2X day it came out and I love it. No issues. I had a Vibrant and I would never buy a Samsung product again. For everyone waiting for the next Samsung phone just make sure you love whatever OS it comes with because no matter what Google releases after you will never get it.

samomamo said:
Tee try to defend your purchase this phone is **** and I recomended to my friends when I got it they bought it and were having problems too wifi screen bleed reboots and so on I had lots of phones and this is the worst manufactured crap
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Dude i know your were your coming from but you have to relize that just because YOUR G2X was a complete dud doesnt mean all G2X are like that.and dont say im just defending the G2X because i DON'T have it, its just the way it is they're are always going to be bad apples in the bunch especially during the first batch... dont believe me go to other phones sections.. but yeah man that does suck hope you get your money back or atleast a replacement...
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You got a bad one just like I had 3 of them until I found a good one. There is problems with this phone just like every other one. I had to exchange my Vibrant 4 times just to get a working GPS and had to exchange my N1 3 times for various reasons. I wouldn't say I'm rich but I have enough money to buy any phone I want and I chose to buy this one for the time being. I chose it for a couple of reasons. The DEV support its going to receive and its the quickest phone on the market. I have no doubt in my mind that I am going to buy the SGII if it gets to Tmobile but I can tell you right now, once I get rid of this phone, I wont make a thread crying about it. I am no fanboy for any device and I am not loyal to any particular manufacturer so I could give a **** less what you say about the G2X just as long as you use English the next time you start ranting.
By the way, my G2X has no problems but my first 3 did. This is the best Android device I have ever used.
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mine had screen bleed so tmobile gave me a new one , this new one has less screen bleed , this new one had the same problem that youre describing , just turn off the phone by removing the battery , put it in again , hold down the vol down button then hold down the power button at the same time , it should enter factory reset mode , there it should boot again normally , been working fine so far.
its a buggy phone, but its the software fault not the hardware, gingerbread should fix the problem , i would like it to have honeycomb instead of gingerbread though.

Thanx all of u, u guys are the best. Thanx for responding

I'm on my second G2X but since rooting and freezing the T-mobile junk this is by far the best phone I've ever had. Before this I was a hardcore Nokia user.
From what I've read the first batch of phones was bad but it would seen that these are getting fixed. Case in point is the screen bleed, my first phone was awful but this one has none and I know of 3 others who have no bleed either.
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Tbolt gone temporary got a charge for now.

the random reboots after the last push update sucked. went through 2 sets of tbolt.
Verizion agree to send me new Charges (2 of them since i have to 2 bolts)
to use till htc puts out a fix or update.
funny thing is Tech supervisors in the Philla call center know nothing of the push problems where Tech supervisors in the houston center know all about it.
this was the short story i have the long if anyone interested.

Mechastomper said:
the random reboots after the last push update sucked. went through 2 sets of tbolt.
Verizion agree to send me new Charges (2 of them since i have to 2 bolts)
to use till htc puts out a fix or update.
funny thing is Tech supervisors in the Philla call center know nothing of the push problems where Tech supervisors in the houston center know all about it.
this was the short story i have the long if anyone interested.
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Sorry you are having so many problems! So how do you like the Charge vs the TB?

Having same issue of rebooted when it wants. Often like 8 times a day it is getting annoying.
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Mechastomper said:
the random reboots after the last push update sucked. went through 2 sets of tbolt.
Verizion agree to send me new Charges (2 of them since i have to 2 bolts)
to use till htc puts out a fix or update.
funny thing is Tech supervisors in the Philla call center know nothing of the push problems where Tech supervisors in the houston center know all about it.
this was the short story i have the long if anyone interested.
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I called and I complained for almost 2 hours... they wouldn't change mine for a Charge. Grr...

if rooted
I was having the reboot issues, I started flashing the radios on plunks advice. first i tried cdma.7 lte.6 rebooted next day; cdma.6 lte.7 rebooted next day;
I'm now running cdma.6 and lte.6.
So far no more reboots. It's been a few days.
(its very easy to flash the radios, there is a thread in development forum with each of the packages)

jamezr said:
Sorry you are having so many problems! So how do you like the Charge vs the TB?
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Charge sucks imo! Very very laggy moving between screens. Plus it's a Samsung. Left Sprint and the epic for Verizon and the thunderbolt.
I have email confirmations that I get to swap back to the thunderbolt once a fix is out.
I have 2 numbers to Verizon tech supervisors. One in Philadelphia ( very helpful) and one in Houston. Houston did the replacement deal butt when Houston wouldn't return my calls I got a hold of the guy in Philadelphia and he emailed the supervisor I was telling to in Houston, the tech and their boys asking what's the deal. Again Philadelphia had no documentation of the thunderbolt issues
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Mechastomper said:
Charge sucks imo! Very very laggy moving between screens. Plus it's a Samsung. Left Sprint and the epic for Verizon and the thunderbolt.
I have email confirmations that I get to swap back to the thunderbolt once a fix is out.
I have 2 numbers to Verizon tech supervisors. One in Philadelphia ( very helpful) and one in Houston. Houston did the replacement deal butt when Houston wouldn't return my calls I got a hold of the guy in Philadelphia and he emailed the supervisor I was telling to in Houston, the tech and their boys asking what's the deal. Again Philadelphia had no documentation of the thunderbolt issues
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Hey guys I am having this random reboots myself but it is not as bad. The thing that I am kinda hesistant to call tech support though is if they ask for the software info. I am running virus rom rc1b3. Can someone please provide me with information that might be needed by the reps? Thanks in advance....

aedillor said:
Hey guys I am having this random reboots myself but it is not as bad. The thing that I am kinda hesistant to call tech support though is if they ask for the software info. I am running virus rom rc1b3. Can someone please provide me with information that might be needed by the reps? Thanks in advance....
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Both my thunderbolt were stock. If I were you I would return them to stock then call tech
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aedillor said:
Hey guys I am having this random reboots myself but it is not as bad. The thing that I am kinda hesistant to call tech support though is if they ask for the software info. I am running virus rom rc1b3. Can someone please provide me with information that might be needed by the reps? Thanks in advance....
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If you're already rooted then all you have to do is reflash stock radio and no more reboots. As previously said it's easy and there is a thread in development that will guide ya on what to do.
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They offered me the same thing but the replacement is working fine now,even with the update on it, its still stock but I will root it and put the bamf gb remix on it,not one reboot in 10 days. I believe what HTC has said that its a mix of bad phones and rushed software hence the snappy replacements.
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Had a fascinate aka 3g charge and touchwiz and samsung get a thumbsdown from me i got my thunderbolt yesterday and have not had a reboot or issue and sense is awesome!

I had a thunderbolt that was built kind of crappy. Dead pixel, light leakage, and a depressed power button. I kind of dealt with all of that till about a week ago when I started getting reboots. Called Verizon explained what was happening. Got a replacement the next day (Called at 5 PM) and after getting it all set up everything feels great. The phone is much better quality and the screen feels much better (Hard to explain but it just does). One week later no reboots. Have to give it to Verizon for the quick and painless transition.
FYI My original phone was from release day and was rooted.

How do you like the charge in comparison to the tbolt?

bd1212 said:
How do you like the charge in comparison to the tbolt?
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hate it.
its going back

miketoasty said:
I had a thunderbolt that was built kind of crappy. Dead pixel, light leakage, and a depressed power button. I kind of dealt with all of that till about a week ago when I started getting reboots. Called Verizon explained what was happening. Got a replacement the next day (Called at 5 PM) and after getting it all set up everything feels great. The phone is much better quality and the screen feels much better (Hard to explain but it just does). One week later no reboots. Have to give it to Verizon for the quick and painless transition.
FYI My original phone was from release day and was rooted.
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I only had one reboot when trying to flash GB which from what I understand is normal. My first unit died from what we like to call a "c%$k drop." I got a phone call when I was doing my business and was half drunk so yea... My first unit's only problem was the power button. The new unit is great and has a much better power button. Honestly I think the battery is better too.

cstrife999 said:
I only had one reboot when trying to flash GB which from what I understand is normal. My first unit died from what we like to call a "c%$k drop." I got a phone call when I was doing my business and was half drunk so yea... My first unit's only problem was the power button. The new unit is great and has a much better power button. Honestly I think the battery is better too.
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This is good to hear. I finally went to Verizon and told them about the random reboots daily. I've also had problems with the weak power button but didn't mention it. The only question they asked me was if I had done a factory reset. Told them yes, and she said they would send me a replacement phone hopefully by Saturday or Monday. I don't care if its a "Certified like new" phone as long as it works just as good as a new one.

Sold my phone

My phone had been perfect for about 2 weeks then all of a sudden, problems exploded like a ticking bomb went off. At first the unlocking circle rejected my touch input 4 out of 5 attempts, waking up the phone became a luck draw, then a dead pixel (black one, dead forever) developed right in the center of the screen and irritated my soul every time I look at it, plus the heat issue that's been there since the beginning, there are just too much for me to get over with and I lost faith and patience in going further, what should be fun and excitement turned into constant pain so I decided to lose the burden.
I still trust in Sensation going to be a one of the best smartphones in due time, and I might come back considering it again once it's cleared of issues and bootloder lock.

So you unloaded your problems on some poor sap, huh?
Why didnt you just return it?

maybe you had a defective phone. you could have gone and exchange a new one. I never have any prob with my phone... bootloader will be unlocked next month so the phone will be more awesome...

I agree, should have exchanged it at least once before giving up on it.

sorry forgot to mention, authorized HTC sellers don't have Sensation here in China so I bought my phone "off-market" which means replacement warranty is strictly within 7 days. I would exchange if I have the slightest chance...

joemm said:
So you unloaded your problems on some poor sap, huh?
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This^ It's messed up that people will sell broken defective stuff. I can bet the seller mentioned non of the above problems to the buyer.
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So, did you tell the buyer about any of these problems?
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i just returned mine because nothing impressed me but the 1080p video capture and play.im finished with HTC unless Google releases another nexus.hearing buzz on Nexus Prime.

New G2x black freeze

Hey everyone I just bought a g2x and it seemed to be OK until everytime I charge it wont wake up and its hot as hell!! I have to battery pull. Last night I had it charging and in the morn the phone would not wake and was baking like it was in the oven. I rooted but still seem to have the problem with all rom's. After scouring the forums I've seen some people return there's and get an up to date model which fixes the problem. Other threads say its the battery at fault. Since I bought it straight up I can't call T-Mobile for exchange so what can I do? Are there any ways I can stop this from happening? Thanks guys for looking at my post.
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If it is getting that hot there is a serious problem with the battery or the phone. Contact TMO and get a replacement. If you bought from a third party source get them to replace your defective device. Are you using the official battery? After market batteries often have bad temp sensors and can cause dangerous issues such as this. If the battery gets too hot it can actually explode.

I bough it new from a third party at a high price. They said they will not take it back. Anything that is wrong with the phone its not their fault nor problem. Can't contact T-Mobile since i didn't get it through them and I'm on a different carrier because i had the phone sim unlocked.
Update though the only Roman which been running perfect no freezes or reboot is eagle blood froyo. Stable and fast rom but I'm dying for gingerbread. All Ginger roms give me problems. BTW I'm using battery that came with phone not third party.
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Do u have full coverage insurance? If u do, use the phone for a few days then call T-Mobile. Insurance stays on the line and covers 99% of phones.
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rbryant1983 said:
Do u have full coverage insurance? If u do, use the phone for a few days then call T-Mobile. Insurance stays on the line and covers 99% of phones.
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I don't have tmobile contract. I use simple mobile 4g service which is 60 dollars a month. They won't honor me. I was thinking of calling LG support but I don't think that will go anywhere.
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Try a new battery. If that doesn't solve the problem contact LG USA support. Don't mention you are not a TMO customer or that you bought it second hand (warranty is to the original purchaser only - technically second hand devices have no warranty). If you don't have proof of purchase they might honor the warranty based on 18 months from the date of manufacture. Play as stupid as you can and see if they let you send it in for repair or replacement. They don't do advance exchanges so you will be without the phone for about a month.

No luck with LG support. The only thing I have left is trying a new battery. Right now I'm fine on Eagles Blood froyo rom but any other rom i get overheating and reboots/freezes. Idk why is that.
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I remember when I had the same issue you have... "charge over night, wake up and phone was very hot and the buttons light up but nothing was on screen"... I tried all the rom there is for g2x, best for me is cm7 nightly builds. No issue what so ever after flashing it. Cm7 Nightly 179

I just found a gingerbread Tom that was posted not too long ago that fixes all the screen of death issues and reboots. Jboxer ported it from another LG L95G (tracfone) that has the same hardware as the g2x. I've been running it and it is flawless. The only bad side is its stock. But ill take performance over everything else. Its gingerbread 2.3.4.
Im nit android saavy but im thinking LG messed up somewhere in the software. A bug that should have been noticed by them.
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This phone crap for anyone else?

My friend is about to be on his third one.
First one had the force close problem where everything would FC. Doesnt matter if you wipe it, factory reset it, new ROM, stock ODIN, it would keep happening.
Second one had a broken mic. Voice to other people were completely muffled.
Third one is coming Friday. Verizon refuses to send him a different phone.

Ive been on the same charge since purchased. No problems at all.
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I have the static problem, but I am too busy to get another sent.
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bnguyen1983 said:
My friend is about to be on his third one.
First one had the force close problem where everything would FC. Doesnt matter if you wipe it, factory reset it, new ROM, stock ODIN, it would keep happening.
Second one had a broken mic. Voice to other people were completely muffled.
Third one is coming Friday. Verizon refuses to send him a different phone.
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Tell the UPS guy to quit throwing the packages over the fence....

droid charge
I have had this phone since it came out and I love it, I have had no issues at all. Every phone comes out has some bad apples (pun intended). but this phone is a great phone in my opinion. I hope the third one will change your opinion on the phone cause it has treated me well. As a final note I have used odin and cwm and all kinds of different roms, kernels, updates, themes, and everything with no problems

Every problem I have had with this phone has been fixed by software updates except for the weak signal reception, but i guess that is what you get when you buy Samsung.
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I've enjoyed the phone except for one problem. I'm calling Verizon tonight to maybe get a replacement. On more then half of long phone calls that are over ten minutes, the phone makes a clicking noise and then the other person can't here me anymore. Happens daily.
I'm considering burning my upgrade for the Nexus. If only the One X was coming to Verizon, or anything quad core for that matter.
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Your friend is one of the unlucky one, he probably received replacement phones returned from members of XDA!)
I don't understand why Verizon refused to replace his phone? If they can't fix the problem, they obligated to replace the device if you're on Verizon contract. I never heard of Verizon ever refused to hand out replace if they failed to fix the problem??

piizzadude said:
Tell the UPS guy to quit throwing the packages over the fence....
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Post of the day candidate

luis86dr said:
Ive been on the same charge since purchased. No problems at all.
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This.
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I'm on my third Charge. My first one died within a week before I'd even rooted it. The EE4 OTA failed and bricked the CDMA modem in the process. The second one had an odd USB port failure that caused it to randomly go in and out of desk dock mode

buhohitr said:
Your friend is one of the unlucky one, he probably received replacement phones returned from members of XDA!)
I don't understand why Verizon refused to replace his phone? If they can't fix the problem, they obligated to replace the device if you're on Verizon contract. I never heard of Verizon ever refused to hand out replace if they failed to fix the problem??
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I think the key statement of the Op is "different phone". I too am on the 4th CLN charge for the clicking and popping on calls lasting more than 10 minutes. The irony is my current phone was perfect until the FP1 update, then the clicks started happening again. I tried to get verizon to send me a different device but was told the manufacturer has only approved them to send CLN phones out. When I asked what verizon's policy was, all I got was silence. Apparently they don't care that I spend $2200 per year for a family plan that a $200 phone can ruin. They aren't making money on handsets, it's all in the service.
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JihadSquad said:
Every problem I have had with this phone has been fixed by software updates except for the weak signal reception, but i guess that is what you get when you buy Samsung.
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Might be where you live..ive never had a problem with signal strength...when I had the HTC Incredible OMG that had HORRIBLE signal strength...

jager420 said:
Might be where you live..ive never had a problem with signal strength...when I had the HTC Incredible OMG that had HORRIBLE signal strength...
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I have friends with a Droid x, Droid 3, Droid bionic, and a lazy ass still on og Droid. Everywhere we go my phone always has worse service than the others, especially the 3g only ones.
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JihadSquad said:
lazy ass still on og Droid.
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Lol my friend is the same..he won't upgrade..maybe HTC signal strength was that bad compared to Samsung because I'm always on a strong signal. Except when I'm in 3g..I always have ****ty 3g download speeds
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Mine works great, I've only had it for about two months. I got it used off of craigslist, I've always wanted this phone ever since it came out but I was stuck with the HTC incredible. I rooted it, changed the radio, the kernel and bought an extended battery and I've never had any issues with it so far
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Love my charge
I've had two charges, both refurbs since they offered it to me after dealing with a lot of annoying problems with my fascinate. The first one was great, had a bit of a static issue on phone calls but easily dealable, but my usb controller crapped out after about three months so I could no longer flash anything through odin (which is simply unacceptable to me). VZ sent me a replacement and after customizing it and getting the latest software I have not had a single problem since, no static issues on calls, and ridiculously good reception even in my bunker of a house. Hands down my favorite phone I've ever owned.

Static, static, and more static. Even with the last update. I can deal with it, because it's my work phone, and almost always use bluetooth.

When I talk on the phone with my gf (the only time I talk with anybody for more than 5 minutes), she says she hears the clicking and then I disappear. I can hear her, but she can't hear me. It's been happening as long as I can remember, so I went back to stock and took all the updates. Not rooted at the moment, and if the call problem happens one more time I'm buying the Nexus.

As long as you have the warranty on your phone you can get as many refurbs as you like. Or you can request for a new phone from Verizon if your tired of having problems out of your phone. I started with a Driod 2. From there: Droid X, iPhone 4 ( black 8gb), Droid X2, LG Revolution, Droid Bionic, Droid Charge, Samsung Stratosphere, then funny enough back to the Droid Charge. This is all the phones they have sent me during my two year contract which ends this September. So this comes to show that if you have an issue with your phone verizon as all about customer satisfaction. So if your unhappy with your phone just complain. They will set things straight. And in case anybody is wondering I just like to play and mod different phones. Was really regretting getting rid of the iPhone 4 but Tweaked v2.0 rom by dwitherell has really made me happy to be a Charge owner. The rom is super stable and super quick. No lockups or lag. And the theme is just beautiful.
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InfinityROM by imnuts is another rom that will make your Phone run better (if you can handle all the hotboots). If only dwitherell could add the TouchWiz 4 launcher from Infinity to Tweaked v2.0 I'd be in heaven!