headbanger51
Well-Known Member
So this may seem like a post more suitable for the OG Droid thread, but I disagree. The SGN, IMHO, seems to be the next phone that will truly change the smartphone landscape in many ways similar to the way the OG Droid did. So I thought I'd post a couple things here:
A. a quick, Hallmark Movie-eque story of how an Apple employee told me about the droid; and
B. the shinannigans my droid is pulling now, as we count down the last few days (hopefully) until the SGN's release
A. around Sept of 2009, I had an LG Voyager...billed as Verizon's iPhone killer, it certainly was not. Like so many "iPhone killers," it was a joke. A decent phone in and of itself, but the moniker of, "iPhone killer" on an LG Voyager is laughable. I had become sick and tired of being on the best network with the WORST cellphones. I looked briefly into getting that PoS Blackberry Storm 2 for a bit, but realized it, too, was hastily put together in terms of hardware and software. Fed up, and after a great deal of consideration, I walked into the Apple store and told them I wanted out of my Verizon contract (for which I would pay a heft fee) early and get an iPhone. The guy says to me, "Before you waste a lot of money exiting your contract, have you heard of the Droid?" Before I could offer the obligatory Star Wars response, he said, "It's a phone being released on Verizon by Google and Motorola, and it's the first phone that is truly going to marginalize the iPhone. I told him I hadn't heard of it and he directed me to droiddoes.com. Long story short, I did, and I had my droid I think the day it was released in early Nov. For one of the few times in my life, I felt like I had a product that was truly at the top of the heap and ahead of the curve. And then when my extremely tech savvy friend told me about rooting, and after I saw what rooting could do with my phone, well...the rest was history, as I'm sure most of you can understand. I remember showing my coworkers my phone when I first got it. One of them went out and bought a droid on the spot. A second had one a few days later. The OG Droid should rightfully go down as one of the greatest cellphones of all time.
B. Now that I'm awaiting the release of the SGN, clicking on phandroid.com and droid-life with alarming repetitiveness, my droid in the last 2 or 3 weeks has almost decided to say, "f--k this s--t" and all but throw in the towel. Here's what it's doing. I'd be curious what everyone else's phone is doing (btw, I'm running 2.2.1 and BBv0.5 with a theme from Fabolos):
- my phone has been telling me there's an update available with popups about every 15 minutes. I know I can go in and install a new file somewhere that will trick the network into thinking I have the latest updates, but I've been putting it off thinking (foolishly) that the SGN will be released "shortly"
- android market no longer works
-- I realize these previous two could be fixed by flashing a new ROM, but I don't feel like it...don't want to go through the hassle of setting everything up again just to go out and get a new phone. I have zero time anyway to do that sort of thing
- battery life has gone south to the point where I need to charge it at work or I won't make it through the day
That's it! Just had to post. Curious if anyone else is going to have fond memories of their phone (esp if it's an OG Droid) upon turning it in for the SGN.
A. a quick, Hallmark Movie-eque story of how an Apple employee told me about the droid; and
B. the shinannigans my droid is pulling now, as we count down the last few days (hopefully) until the SGN's release
A. around Sept of 2009, I had an LG Voyager...billed as Verizon's iPhone killer, it certainly was not. Like so many "iPhone killers," it was a joke. A decent phone in and of itself, but the moniker of, "iPhone killer" on an LG Voyager is laughable. I had become sick and tired of being on the best network with the WORST cellphones. I looked briefly into getting that PoS Blackberry Storm 2 for a bit, but realized it, too, was hastily put together in terms of hardware and software. Fed up, and after a great deal of consideration, I walked into the Apple store and told them I wanted out of my Verizon contract (for which I would pay a heft fee) early and get an iPhone. The guy says to me, "Before you waste a lot of money exiting your contract, have you heard of the Droid?" Before I could offer the obligatory Star Wars response, he said, "It's a phone being released on Verizon by Google and Motorola, and it's the first phone that is truly going to marginalize the iPhone. I told him I hadn't heard of it and he directed me to droiddoes.com. Long story short, I did, and I had my droid I think the day it was released in early Nov. For one of the few times in my life, I felt like I had a product that was truly at the top of the heap and ahead of the curve. And then when my extremely tech savvy friend told me about rooting, and after I saw what rooting could do with my phone, well...the rest was history, as I'm sure most of you can understand. I remember showing my coworkers my phone when I first got it. One of them went out and bought a droid on the spot. A second had one a few days later. The OG Droid should rightfully go down as one of the greatest cellphones of all time.
B. Now that I'm awaiting the release of the SGN, clicking on phandroid.com and droid-life with alarming repetitiveness, my droid in the last 2 or 3 weeks has almost decided to say, "f--k this s--t" and all but throw in the towel. Here's what it's doing. I'd be curious what everyone else's phone is doing (btw, I'm running 2.2.1 and BBv0.5 with a theme from Fabolos):
- my phone has been telling me there's an update available with popups about every 15 minutes. I know I can go in and install a new file somewhere that will trick the network into thinking I have the latest updates, but I've been putting it off thinking (foolishly) that the SGN will be released "shortly"
- android market no longer works
-- I realize these previous two could be fixed by flashing a new ROM, but I don't feel like it...don't want to go through the hassle of setting everything up again just to go out and get a new phone. I have zero time anyway to do that sort of thing
- battery life has gone south to the point where I need to charge it at work or I won't make it through the day
That's it! Just had to post. Curious if anyone else is going to have fond memories of their phone (esp if it's an OG Droid) upon turning it in for the SGN.
) and she had a sidekick on Tmo. We talked all the time, and her service was crappy. So i wanted to upgrade. I wanted the Nexus One soooo badly, but didnt like Tmo. Verizon gave me a early upgrade and I got myself and my wife our droids on Jan 7th 2010. (i really got my wife an eris, but returned it and got her OG for free on amazon after). I loved my phone.... My wife, not so much. Coming from the sidekick i thought she would like the slider, but I enjoyed it more. I got another 1 year upgrade from verizon and got her a Incredible in Jan 2011. I replaced my OG with hers (Mine had a crack across the middle of the screen and across the LED). Again I Loved it. I bought a Nook Color in March and loved the tablet, and suddenly the OG screen was too small. I wanted a Tbolt. I upgraded (if youll call it that) in June and loved it for a while, but soon sense made no sense (lol) and CM7 had data issues. I sold it over a month ago and went back to the OG. It ran strong for a bit, but I couldnt do much on it. I FC'd apps while loading them because it took so long, and it was dying. So I took her out of service last week, I put her to bed in her dock and now she wakes me up every morning 
