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Droid Charge....PLEASE UPDATE THIS THING!!!

macman24

macman24

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OMG... When will we see an update for this crappy phone? Trying to use the Droid Charge as a 4G or even 3G Mobile Hotspot is the PITS!!! I thought that the update I received when I first got this phone would work but it has done NOTHING!!! The Verizon 4G Network is not all that great as it is (more hype than anything) and to combine that with this Droid Charge makes trying to access the internet totally useless. I had T-Mobile prior to switching to Verizon and had much better hotspot performance with them. I have never seen a network that is so performance poor in my life. I am afraid to download anything to my computer because it stalls and never completes the download.

Swapping the phone is out because my 14 day time period is up so I'm stuck with this. I have had the sim card swapped out, a new battery put in and still this phone never finds the server unless I restart the phone which is all the time and totally ridiculous. When I do get on I cannot stay on or the performance is so freaking slow you may as well use a dial up connection. And I live in a 4G coverage area. It does not make any sense.

I had a Thunderbolt before this phone (I should have kept it) which went through the same issues but after it's update it worked fine. Now the Thunderbolt has received another update.... Come on Samsung!!! I switched to the Droid Charge because of the screen (which seems to be the best thing about this phone).

Samsung and/or Verizon needs to do something very quickly about this and provide an update; Gingerbread or whatever..... As long as it fixes this issue. At this point I am willing to pay to get out of my contract and go elsewhere for better Mobile Hotspot performance.

Hey; Sprint now has the iPhone.....hmmmmm.
 
First, how useful 4G is to you (and consequently, how useful the Mobile Hotspot feature is) will depend entirely upon 4G signal strength in your area. I'd agree that if you're not in a 4G area, getting a Charge makes little sense.

Second, I live in a strong-4G area and it's far from useless. I get download speeds up to 20 Gb/sec and upload of up to 6 Gb/sec. That's incredibly fast; fast enough to stream movies with absolutely no lag. The Mobile Hotspot feature works flawlessly.

Third, I find this phone to be extremely competent, and I've owned BlackBerries and other Android phones. But which phone is best for you is a very individual decision.

Finally, anyone who considers switching to Sprint from Verizon should probably review customer satisfaction scores first, along with confirming that Sprint's signal strength is better in their area (and in most cases, it will not be).
 
Yes, switch to the latest leaked gingerbread rom. This rom runs so smooth and my battery hardly drains like it used to when I had the gummycharged froyo 2.0. The 3g drop issue is alot better than before.
 
Thanks much. That's an idea; upgrading to the new ROM. But does that void the warranty?

The reason I mentioned Sprint was because I have a friend on Sprint and he uses his MH 100% of the time and is always connected to 4G. Well; I will go ahead and Flash the ROM and see how it goes.

Peace....

Update: Ok; went to the site to check out the Gingerbread ROM update and saw this: Update 2: SMS send and receive and mobile hotspot are non-working. Do not download this file (the link has been removed) - wait until a more stable release is available. If you need to flash back to Froyo, please check out this thread on MyDroidWorld.

Is this old and is there a more current update than this one?
 
The newest leak is the 2.3.5. I was paying for the verizon mobile hotspot before i rooted. I initially rooted and used gummycharged 2.0(froyo) and did away with the verizon MH. I then purchased the 4.99 mobile hotspot app from the market. It worked with the first rom, but when I flashed the new leaked 2.3.5, it quit working. Now I use the barnacle wifi app which is free and works pretty well.
 
macman24 said:
Update: Ok; went to the site to check out the Gingerbread ROM update and saw this: Update 2: SMS send and receive and mobile hotspot are non-working. Do not download this file (the link has been removed) - wait until a more stable release is available. If you need to flash back to Froyo, please check out this thread on MyDroidWorld.

Is this old and is there a more current update than this one?
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That problem was from the initial Gingerbread leak months ago. It hasn't been an issue in a long time.

As the others said, you're looking for either an EP1W ROM (Gingerbread 2.3.4) or EP3HA ROM (Gingerbread 2.3.5).
 
To the OP....if your having so many issues with the phone, why not call VZW cs and get a replacement sent out? U have a 1 year Warrenty for issues like this.

Also, Sprints 3G has been absolutely horrid as of late...Don't even bother man.
 
sean76 said:
To the OP....if your having so many issues with the phone, why not call VZW cs and get a replacement sent out? U have a 1 year Warrenty for issues like this.

Also, Sprints 3G has been absolutely horrid as of late...Don't even bother man.
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HA... Wouldnt that be nice eh. Verizon's ONLY solution to fix your problems is to send you a refurb phone. IMO, completely unacceptable if you paid the original (and full) price for the phone and the resolution is to give you a cheaper and broken device. There are so many issues with the refurb phones it's not worth the hell.

For the Sprint/Verizon/AT&T problems, its dependent on a lot of things. Who your area reps are, etc. Customer service has lacked from all of them, but sometimes you'll get lucky. I personally couldnt recommend Sprint to anyone because they cannot properly protect my personal information which lead to identity theft. I would say that it was just me, but a friend of mine had it happen to him 8 years before and thats why he left them. I'm not confident in their ability to properly secure my personal information. I'm still paying for their mistake and it's 3 years later.


But off that rant:
Definitely flash the phone. 99.9% of my problems with the phone went away after putting a new ROM on it. I just flashed HumbleROM 4.22 on my device a couple of days ago and it's actually been a much better experience than the GummyROM I came from. I was thrilled with GummyROM (froyo, I kept having massive issues with their Gingerbread), but moving up to HumbleROM has been much smoother and its a very solid ROM as far as I can tell.
 
My co-worker has a Driod Charge, purchased over the summer, and he is having a battery issue. He was told by Verizon that there are no replacement batteries available and Samsung has discontinued them. Has anyone else heard about this?
 
is it bad that my ATT Uverse home internet is so slow with the "ELITE PACKAGE" i would rather grab my 4g LTE phone and watch the movie so it doesn't lag?
 
aviboy97 said:
My co-worker has a Driod Charge, purchased over the summer, and he is having a battery issue. He was told by Verizon that there are no replacement batteries available and Samsung has discontinued them. Has anyone else heard about this?
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there are always extended batteries for a phone. In the Charges case it really comes down to two things imo.

1. If going stock ditch TW and go with Go Launcher EX. Know how to set what settings and your batt/lagg will improve.

2. Root it. The Charge may get some flak but it is one of the better phones out to date that gains performance and batt life from rooting. You get a solid ROM running on a rooted Charge and it's hard to beat. The phone just screams through whatever you throw at it with minimal battery output.

I could rant on about this but hell it's friday and i been drinken lol. At first i thought i should have waited for the "next big thing" but once my charge was set there is no looking back. It really is that good of a phone once you have it set up right.
 
Chi-TownTx said:
there are always extended batteries for a phone. In the Charges case it really comes down to two things imo.

1. If going stock ditch TW and go with Go Launcher EX. Know how to set what settings and your batt/lagg will improve.

2. Root it. The Charge may get some flak but it is one of the better phones out to date that gains performance and batt life from rooting. You get a solid ROM running on a rooted Charge and it's hard to beat. The phone just screams through whatever you throw at it with minimal battery output.

I could rant on about this but hell it's friday and i been drinken lol. At first i thought i should have waited for the "next big thing" but once my charge was set there is no looking back. It really is that good of a phone once you have it set up right.
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Today rom do you suggest? I'm thinking of taking the leap this weekend and rooting.
 
I have about 70 apps installed, some a little bit on the big side, like Firefox. My Charge tends to choke after a while on these various programs after I use a few of them. I also loaded a few years worth of photos, over 10,000 on the SD card. Coming back to the home screen can be slow, playing Angry Birds can cause a long pause. There are also spontaneous reboots once in a while. So is rooting going to make this thing really scream, under these circumstances? It's really pretty hard for me to know just what specifically is causing all the slowdowns.
Or... is Gingerbread likely to fix all these delays and partial freeze-ups?
Should I also get a faster SD Card than this one which is class 2?

I really don't know what is going to be the most important thing for speeding up my Charge.

Thanks for any thoughts.
 
Flashing a new ROM fixed almost all my issues. HumbleROM 4.22 seems to be the best for me thus far. I've tried all the flavors of GummyROM and I had some issues, but once I switched over to HumbleROM, it's been a wonderful experience.
I'm still thinking that a faster SD card could help with pictures/camera/and whatever else is on the card, but for anything that is installed directly to the phone, it's going to be plenty fast.

ICS on our phones, that's the funniest thing I've heard all morning. Samsung has dropped support for this device because they simply do not give a rats fundamental orifice about their customers or actually making something that's intended to last more than a month. Considering that Samsung has released over 20 phones this year, I'm amazed they admit the phone exists at this point.

Basically Verizon and Samsung have screwed their loyal (and high dollar) customers yet again. There is no way they're going to give us any support because the "Prime/Nexus/whatever" is supposed to be their next flagship device of the month, until they release the #2 of it 3 months later after throwing another 5 phones down the consumers throats.

But hey, what do I know. I've only bought Samsung phones in the past to realize that they dont care about the customer, swore I wouldnt do it again, bought the Droid Charge and then remembered why I swore them off. I think they should stick to TV's, sell their screens to real phone manufacturers, and apologize for what they've done. I'm the farthest thing from an apple fan, but when nearly every device they've put out recently is nearly a clone of the iPhone... Their innovation has gone out the window.
 
I really have to agree with the above post. It's a damn shame that Verizon and Samsung have already forgotten about a Droid branded phone! Not a word of any update to 2.3, or even a temporary fix for the many issues a majority of users are seeing. Before flashing to a leaked ROM, this phone was unusable at its very core. GPS did not work at all, long screen redraws constantly, random resets, laggy performance. At least with this leaked ROM, wherever it came from, GPS now works great and screen redraw and lag is reduced.
I'm starting to seriously hate Android simply because of the incredibly short product cycles and dropped support for a phone 0.5 years into a 2 year contract.
 
In about 6 to 8 months from now when the Vigor, EVO 3D, RAZR and Bionic all have ICS, people will finally realize that Samsung has dropped the ball on SG2 by still having gingerbread. They did it to the Behold II, Captivate, Fascinate, Epic touch, Vibrant, Infuse and Droid Charge. All Samsung cares about is money and topping. I don't understand why people go out and praise their flagship devices cause all your gonna get is a single upgrade per device that's about 6-8 months old. They are already focusing on GSIII.
 
I think we should flood the inbox of Samsung customer service (or higher if we can find out how) and let them know how we feel about the lack of support for "flagship" devices after the sale.

This thing just came out in May, and between Samsung and Verizon -- NO Love at all.
 
If it's true it's Verizon that is causing the delays, I'd hope that Samsung would get feed up and release their own updates for those who want to keep the phone/brand running. Otherwise they can expect those who own Samsung's now to not stay with the brand when they buy their next phone.

As for Verizon, I only stay with them because of needed coverage, and not that that's the best, it's just that at least I get some signal where I am/go as compared to others. so when/if someone else gets better signal coverage when my contract is up, you can bet I'm switching.

Samsung please hear is we need you to step up and support your devices.

Will
 
Omnia=>Fascinate=>Charge

Only reason I have a Charge is I got it free after Sammy messed up the froyo update on the Fassy so bad they gave me a different phone. Said update was about 6-8 months after it was promised, by Sammy, when I bought the phone.

That says it all, really. I have an upgrade in about 6 months and I will not even consider a Sammy and will likely wait until another Nexus phone to upgrade.
 
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