Who is enjoying their 1V

[andruoid]

I thought I'd start a thread about the 1V. So in a nutshell, who is enjoying their new phone?

Myself, I think the 1V makes an excellent replacement over the Desire. It has more internal memory, a better screen and runs Android 4.0 properly. Also, I have to say that Sense 4.0 is such a nice interface that I'm going to have a hard time finding a need to root. Also, and this is a big plus for me, the battery is excellent, 2+ solid days without a need to recharge.

The only thing that is a bit off is the camera, the color tones and the Auto white balance needs fixing. I've used presets like B&W and Cinnamon which are better than the Auto defaults. HDR setting is pretty good as well. Tip for the camera: -1 for Exposure and +1 for Sharpness.

Best phone I've used to date and the price is unbeatable. That's coming from a HTC Desire, Samsung Nexus S, and Samsung S2X. 8)

 

[350Rocket]

Not a fair comparison but a rooted HTC Desire is faster, and rooting and changing the partitions completely solves the lack of memory problem. My girlfriend went back to her HTC Desire and we are selling the One V to a friend but my experience with it has been pretty good.

My girlfriend has has gone from: HTC Desire (I bought it for her birthday - her first smart phone), then LG Shine Plus (we traded phones cause she liked the keyboard), LG Optimus One (she dropped the Shine Plus in a lake in a canoe accident), Samsung Galaxy S Fascinate (bought used for $100), HTC Desire again (traded the Galaxy S for the HTC Desire), LG Optimus Black (she got a job at Koodo mobile and had to get a Koodo phone), HTC One V (lost her job at Koodo, so we got the One V with Telus so she would have a phone again), HTC Desire (got phone and contract back from my dad so he could switch to Rogers which has reception in his house).

She likes the Desire best but its rooted, custom rom, running in tip top shape. The One V was bone stock which is kind of like being crippled. It will be rooted before I sell it to my friend though cause I have to unlock it for him to use on Rogers (he doesn't want a data plan, so doesn't need 3G to work).

 

[350Rocket]

Oh ya, I listed what phones she has had, but so you know what I'm comparing it to I had: LG Shine Plus (same one she had), HTC Desire (after we switched), Samsung Galaxy S2X (got on an early renewal to get the 6gb plan - then sold the phone to pay for the early renewal fee, but I used it for a couple weeks first), then it was the HTC Desire until the home button stopped working after a year and half (might have been my fault cause I sanded the paint off the casing to make it polished bare metal - paint dust probably got under the buttons - was about 6 months after I did that it gave problems), anyways had the overpriced extended warranty I got with the phone, paid off and got me the One S out of it.

My mom got the One X about a month ago and she is happy with it.
My sister got the the Galaxy S I9000M 2.5 years ago and has had nothing but trouble with it. (Software problems).

 

[andruoid]

The Desire is sure a proven phone and a well supported one at that. Loads of ROMs and hboots to go with. Internal memory was the only thing that the Desire needed badly. For the majority of the time I ran a custom hboot cm7_r2 and DevNull 1.1 ROM, that gave 250MB approx internally. However, I bought a lot of apps last Fall when the $1 sales were on.

I went temporarily insane and went BB in a new contract and 2 months later, couldn't take it anymore. Sold the BB, bought the One V for $289.00. 8)

While the Desire with a ASOP ROM like DevNull is blazing fast I find the One V doesn't lag and I rather like the Sense 4.0 look and features. Massive improvement over the last time I used Sense on the Desire. For now, I won't root / flash a ROM. That may change when more ROMs come into the picture. Hopefully the new JB 4.1 will become available.

 

[350Rocket]

I never ever had memory issues after I went S-Off and changed the hboot to the CM7R-2 version. Actually even with stock hboot and a2sd+ or whatever it was called I never ran out of space. I don't install apps just for the sake of having them, I only like to keep ones I will actually use or might use at some point.

Recently I was at an old friends place and was going to transfer some videos and pictures they had onto my new HTC One S, and turned out I didn't have anywhere near enough space left on the internal SD card to save the stuff, cause I had a bunch of music on it already, and the 16gb card has like 4gb allocated to the huge bloated stock OS, and another 2gb only for apps (I don't need 2gb for apps thats for sure). So now I run out of space to store stuff on the ("16 gb" sd card).

I didn't think the non expandable memory would bother me, I had a 16gb card in the Desire, but the problem is this phone needs S-Off like the Desire did, so I can change the partition layout to something that is actually useful to me.

The 16gb card in the Desire (or in a One V - same idea) leaves almost the whole 16gb of storage, not 10gb or less like the One S/One X. Sure hope we get S off soon, or I'm going to miss the Desire a lot.