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Official Bionic Release Date Thread

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The_Chief said:
Here you go, folks:

DROID Bionic Hits MAP at $299 Starting September 8 (Updated) - Droid Life: A Droid Community Blog

Take it onboard for what you think it's worth, and start saving up your money :)
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Anyone read all those comments in there? lots of h8rs....

BlueBiker said:
Agreed, especially since we're all locked into these 2yr contracts where Verizon makes the real money.

If you're patient, you can wait a few months for the price to come down a little, or you can buy a refurb that may be just as good as new.
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Ohm HELL no. I am NOT going to buy a refurb, No stinking way. New or not.
 
johnlgalt said:
Ohm HELL no. I am NOT going to buy a refurb, No stinking way. New or not.
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Eh, the only thing likely to have wear is the battery [real cheap to replace] and the keyboard [not on Bionic]. The screens are largely indestructible these days, so the only scratches would be on the body.

But hey, I'm not going to begrudge anybody who wants their new toy to be pristine. :)
 
Ummm, no. There are lots of internal components that may test out just fine, but may exhibit erratic failures that are not easily diagnosable. With refurbs, they're not extensively tested like a new product hitting the shelves - they're given cursory tests, and as long as they pass, are sold as refurbished units.

Trust me, I know many people who have gone through 3+ refurbs in the original Motorola DROID....
 
True, if a model is known for design or manufacturing failures then those may well be present in refurbs (often customer returns). And I certainly wouldn't buy a used hard drive or any component likely to be abused by a previous owner -- blown speaker?
 
bigbabys said:
Dang, I always log in every day to see if I can *leak* something, I logged in today and saw that the MAP was out and freaked. But it looks like Droid Life is already on top of it. :(

I can confirm it's real though!
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Lol yeah, DL's got some good insiders....

So do we, but we've also got some corporate insiders, so..... :D

rocket97 said:
This is true, I'm getting my 7th one in today!
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Yeah, I saw your post in the DROID forums after making my post - was going to link to it, but forgot.

Here ya go: http://androidforums.com/motorola-droid/398482-7th-replacement-droid.html
 
Sure am glad for the rumored/confirmed release date, my OG Droid may be taking a nose dive soon, this morn after I had charged it go the message of Damaged SD Card.

Currently not sure if it is the card or the reader on the Droid (kinda hoping it is the latter. though the message does not come up if I boot without the card)
 
dragma said:
Sure am glad for the rumored/confirmed release date, my OG Droid may be taking a nose dive soon, this morn after I had charged it go the message of Damaged SD Card.
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See if you can read it in an external USB card reader. Could be hardware failure or maybe the filesystem got scrambled and needs reformatting. Hope you didn't lose any important files!
 
BlueBiker said:
See if you can read it in an external USB card reader. Could be hardware failure or maybe the filesystem got scrambled and needs reformatting. Hope you didn't lose any important files!
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Me too. and was planning on doing that tonight at home.
 
About a month ago my 16GB card just took a dump. DIED on me. Nothing would read it. Fortunately I had everything backed up regularly to the laptop... so I just copied it all to my stand-by 32GB card and rocked on. I cannot emphasize the importance of backups nearly enough. Double redundancy is a virtue in electronics :)
 
The_Chief said:
About a month ago my 16GB card just took a dump. DIED on me. Nothing would read it. Fortunately I had everything backed up regularly to the laptop... so I just copied it all to my stand-by 32GB card and rocked on. I cannot emphasize the importance of backups nearly enough. Double redundancy is a virtue in electronics :)
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Seems like the 16GB would be the last resort...
 
tehsusenoh said:
Seems like the 16GB would be the last resort...
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Yeah, well... turns out that ClockworkMod had trouble with the 32GB card and making backups. I guess it would choke - on MY Droid anyway - on that much memory, and make a backup on 1 out of 3 attempts. SO I stashed the 32GB away for my next phone. Turns out I needed it and CWM seems to be behaving now. For the most part.
 
Chief - did you 'upgrade' CWM from the 2.5.x series to the 3.1.x series?

I think that would make a difference...
 
Uh, no, I honestly didn't know about that update... where do I get it and how do I install it? :confused:

Not that it matters much, with my Droid retiring in a few weeks...
 
I was looknig for that, ISTR that improved 32GB SDCard support was one of hte main features....

I cannot find it now, let me look further.
 
backup first, and reboot after backup and before flashing, just in case - our DROIDs are temperamental, and I've heard of more than a few that did not like CWMRecovery 3
 
I thought Clockwork transcended backups, in the grand scheme of things. What partition is it in, in case I have to do something drastic - and if CWM 3 doesn't like my Droid, how the heck do I restore the backup if it won't work?

I'm so easily confused :p
 
Recovery and backups are independent. I'm just saying to make a backup in cae things get really hosed b/c 1) CWMRecovery 3 does not work, and 2) ROM Manager cannot force any recovery onto the phone, then 3) You try to use the old SBF Flash method to get a Recovery onto your phone, which leads to 4) Your entire phone being hosed.

I'm planning for the 0.00001584% chance that all this happens just because you tried to flash CWMRecovery 3 onto your phone at my behest.

I do this because I recently got bitten in the arse big time - I was used to making backups offsite with my machine, but when I started the Master's program, at the same time completing my Mathematics Bachelor's, I got really bogged down and stopped making my backups - unfortunately for me. I'm very computer savvy, owning my own repair business as well as having worked in the IT business for companies like Radiant Systems and IBM Global Services for over 12 years, and yet I got hit by a doozy - to be specific, a lightning strike in my neighborhood that took out my PSU (will not start no matter what signal I send to it to start, unless I disconnect the power source and reconnect it) and fried all three of my HDs - 80 GB System SSD, 500 GB Data and 500 GB Storage.

All the raw data I had collected from my Thesis research is gone - the raw data, the interpreted data (in the form of light Statistical analysis in Excel spreadsheets) is in the cloud, but the rest - *poof*.

I had my system set up so that only Window System was on the SSD, and all data was on a separate physical (500 GB) HD, and that the downloads (in particular my M$ TechNet .ISOs) were on the third drive. No RAID, but I had never befor lost multiple drives on a single system simultaneously.

There's always a first time....

So, I'm encouraging you to not get caught with your pants down. :D
 
You know what, JohnGalt? I appreciate the advice and all, and really thank you for looking stuff up for me... but if it's all the same to you, I'm gonna stick to what works for the next few weeks. It's been so long since I rooted or did anything really fancy to this phone (and I've never SBF'd) that I wouldn't want to repeat it on this senile old thing.

It works. I find no reason to mess with it just to have the "latest & greatest" ClockworkMod and risk it not working.

I'm of the old "if it ain't broke don't fix it" school of thought :)

Okay, we can return this thread to its regularly scheduled speculation...
 
Good plan. And as for what I did, it's what I do. If that makes any sense at all, good, 'cause I'm thoroughly losing my sanity ...

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