General Chat Thread

[BJPalmer85]

I had a Windows Phone for awhile, but now that's been passed off to my mom since she wanted to "get into the 21st century." I now have an iPhone 4S which has served me well for almost a year, but I'm starting to have problems with it. Freezing up, home button and lock button not working only at certain screens, randomly taking screenshots, lagging sometimes... the works, haha. I've been meaning to get it to an AT&T store for about a week now.

So a soft reset and see if that fixes it.

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[Pesky Persian]

They would just fail. constant reboots and battery pulls. I even had them rooted and debloated, still didnt help. I take really good care of all my stuff but these things were just defective. it got to the point that I was getting VZW to sending me a replacement phone everyday for nearly a week.

I considered going into an SGS3 or HTC Droid DNA but the thought of more Android failures was to much to stomach.

B

You must have really bad luck with Androids. I've never had that many problems.

[Zenotwapal]

I've only had one problem with my android and its the battery life.
Oh and sometimes the screen won't let me type stuff so I have to wait like 15 minutes, but this is quite rare.

[Kreis]

I've 99 problems, but an android phone ain't one.

[BJPalmer85]

You must have really bad luck with Androids. I've never had that many problems.

I am guessing so, but my wife went through more phones than I did and she also had android. Neither one of us were rough with them. I actually thing it was Moto's fault. To much time and money spent on making the next device and not enough on R&D

I've 99 problems, but an android phone ain't one.

LOL! me to now! The iPhone 5 is a smooth phone. LTE is faster than the wifi I have at work, the screen is amazing and the new drop down status bar is a much needed improvement on iOS.

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[SpeedDeoxys]

I have fever right now...

[Kreis]

You're probably the only one with that, too.

[SpeedDeoxys]

*walks on the lonely road*

[ArmorAndonomon]

If you can't be using speakers, use headphones to talk to people Y/N?

The headphone jack hasn't worked for about 6 months, actually; going with a headset was my first idea as well, but I kinda need a working headphone jack for that. :u Fortunately, a friend of mine just upgraded to the iPhone 5, so he's sending me his 4s, which should be here today or tomorrow. I'm kinda wary of changing over to iOS/a phone without a physical keyboard after this long, but I need a phone, so.

Am I the only one who doesn't have a smartphone?

If you are still in high school, there is pretty much no need for you to have one.

They would just fail. constant reboots and battery pulls. I even had them rooted and debloated, still didnt help. I take really good care of all my stuff but these things were just defective. it got to the point that I was getting VZW to sending me a replacement phone everyday for nearly a week.


B

That's just some awful luck there, broski. In her last few months of life, the only problems I've had with my Droid 3 (aside from, well, the obvious one) were random reboots. Other than that, as long as I wasn't using any resource-heavy apps, my battery life was pretty good, somewhere around a day or so.

[The Admiral]

They would just fail. constant reboots and battery pulls. I even had them rooted and debloated, still didnt help. I take really good care of all my stuff but these things were just defective. it got to the point that I was getting VZW to sending me a replacement phone everyday for nearly a week.

Yikes. I hope you got some of those things cheaper or as replacements or etc.

Mine has a few problems where the memory card corrupts itself once in a while. I don't know exactly what's causing that, but I barely use my phone, either.

If you are still in high school, there is pretty much no need for you to have one.

Thank you for finally saying it. But this applies to a fair number of other gadgets, too. But hey, that's just one person's opinion.

[Manna]

Cereal is amazing.

That is all.

[BJPalmer85]

Yikes. I hope you got some of those things cheaper or as replacements or etc.

Mine has a few problems where the memory card corrupts itself once in a while. I don't know exactly what's causing that, but I barely use my phone, either.



Thank you for finally saying it. But this applies to a fair number of other gadgets, too. But hey, that's just one person's opinion.

All of them but 1 were free replacements. I cant afford to have major issues like I was having, I use my phone for to many things. I had no problems with either the 1st or 2nd gen iPhone (except a button fell of the 2nd gen one).

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[ArmorAndonomon]

Thank you for finally saying it. But this applies to a fair number of other gadgets, too. But hey, that's just one person's opinion.

I just kinda find it ridiculous how kids, like 8 year old kids, are getting all of this ridiculously expensive tech that they really don't need. No Timmy, you don't need an iPhone, you're not trying to run your small business on-the-go, you're going to a friend's house to play with Lego. Have a flip phone that you can call people on and use for emergencies, that is literally all you need; no you don't need texting, you're eight, just call them and talk to them. No Sally, you don't need a fancy tablet to watch TV and movies on, because we have a TV and Internet access on the computer. These things cost hundreds of dollars and kids are just kind of expecting them. Idk, maybe I'm just old fashioned in the thinking that if you really want something, you save up for it and work hard to get it, you don't just get shit handed to you. I have a lot of strong feelings on this topic.

[Jb]

I've 99 problems, but an android phone ain't one.

I have 99 problems and money would fix them all.

EDIT: I also agree with Armor. Why do all these kids even have tablets? Isn't there a leapster or something out there?

[Aquanova]

They would just fail. constant reboots and battery pulls. I even had them rooted and debloated, still didnt help. I take really good care of all my stuff but these things were just defective. it got to the point that I was getting VZW to sending me a replacement phone everyday for nearly a week.

I considered going into an SGS3 or HTC Droid DNA but the thought of more Android failures was to much to stomach.

B

Sorry you've had to go through so many phones That sucks.

[trident20]

my gif ok ?

[Jb]

No

[trident20]

how so ?

[BJPalmer85]

Sorry you've had to go through so many phones That sucks.

it does! That is why I went back to an iPhone.

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[Jb]

how so ?

It's 1.7MB. More than twice the amount allowed.

[trident20]

ok ill remove it .

[Vern]

EDIT: I also agree with Armor. Why do all these kids even have tablets? Isn't there a leapster or something out there?

Didn't Leapster make a tablet? I guess they're getting them ready for the real thing down the road.

[ArmorAndonomon]

Didn't Leapster make a tablet? I guess they're getting them ready for the real thing down the road.

The Leapster tablet is actually kind of adorable. It does A LOT more than you would think for a kid's toy. It even has it's own little app store, although it is very limited; mostly just ebooks and simple learning games, but for a kid under the age of 10 it's pretty cool (even though the 8-10 crowd is "too cool" to use it). But yeah, you're dead on with that, it's just trying to push them further into thinking they need better and better electronic gadgets down the road, when they really don't.

[Phoopes]

It's 1.7MB. More than twice the amount allowed.

Reminds me of something like "his blood alcohol content was twice the legal limit."

[Zazie]

So I just payed negative moneys for a used copy of Metroid Prime 3. This means I was given store credit to take the game. And that is just fantabulous.