Khalifa Jayy
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He wants one too, though "/ lol
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He wants one too, though "/ lol
Mine is due in January and they wouldn't let me
I'm still gonna call them every day this month though!Khalifa Jayy
Banned
Mine is due in January and they wouldn't let me
Some hope for us:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=20342929&postcount=37
Yeahhh, well if that "bug" happens to go unfixed, I don't see myself going up to the counter and pretending to pay full price for it haha.
I was debating paying full price but considering the ETF+Upgrade price ($350+300) is exactly the same price as the phone outright ($650), and with the ETF going down over time, I just cannot justify full price. Though since you have a bit longer to go than me it might be worth trying. I just hope the reps get tired of me. Worst case I bet they'll bump me up at the end of the month when I'm only ~2 weeks away.
edit: So did that guy sign a new contract or just get it for $300?
Circle T
Member
This was my experience, to a T. For some reason, I was given the option of upgrade pricing, even though I'm not due until 2013. I still paid full price, because I don't want to extend my contract. Not sure why this happened, but yes, you might get lucky and get the lower price.
Stores do that but it's not policy, I think they just get more for contract extensions. Are you sure it was a corporate store? You could report them to CS if you feel like wasting a few minutes.
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
I'm considering getting it full price and not extending, but damn does anyone else feel "wrong" paying upwards of six bills for a PHONE?
I think the worst I've gone was $550. $650 would be really pushing it for me...
Wait eBay/CL out for a few weeks and at least you'll save some
Verizon's store locator said it was a corporate store, not a huge deal though since it was really close to my work so I didn't really waste too much time. I figured they were doing that since the phone just came out but lame nonetheless. Might just go in next week or something and speak to somebody else once hype dies down a little bit from launch.
Clearly this is the most important thing
I understand the sentiment but this phone, and even the previous generation, are just small computers. Given the fact that this has better guts than my first gen netbook (and a higher res screen....lol), it's not so crazy.
The one thing I WOULD expect however is a much lower monthly bill for cell service if i were to bring my own phone to the party.
Circle T
Member
Battery Update
I'm a little over 8hrs in on my first full charge, and even with that "New phone, can't put it down" attitude, and after installing a bunch of apps and setting them up, I still have 38% left. This is also with the screen at 100% brightness, just to see how long it lasts. If I put the screen back down to my usual ~35% brightness, get back to normal daily usage, this thing will easily get 12-15hrs of thorough use. I like to leave most things on, and syncing, so slightly lower battery life is my expected trade-off. I'm content with that.
I'm a little over 8hrs in on my first full charge, and even with that "New phone, can't put it down" attitude, and after installing a bunch of apps and setting them up, I still have 38% left. This is also with the screen at 100% brightness, just to see how long it lasts. If I put the screen back down to my usual ~35% brightness, get back to normal daily usage, this thing will easily get 12-15hrs of thorough use. I like to leave most things on, and syncing, so slightly lower battery life is my expected trade-off. I'm content with that.
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
But that doesn't happen...? does it?
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
D'ultimate
Member
Has anyone tried the voice typing? It's pretty good. You can speak in a regular tone and it translates very well. In real time no less.
If you bring your own phone, you're still technically charged a subsidy fee even if you aren't subsidizing a phone. Only carrier that offered a plan without the free was T-Mobile with their even more+ plans.
at&t users can go with cheaper data plans to lessen the blow with nexus phones or the intetnational GS2.
Unknown Soldier
Member
So, I caved and bought a Tuna. I am such a consumer whore. And how!
Anyways, if you follow the procedure to manually root the phone, since there are no automated methods yet, you will eventually reach the bootloader screen.
You'll see these gems on the bootloader screen:
PRODUCT NAME - tuna
VARIANT - *
If you own a GSM Tuna, your variant is maguro. If you have an LTE Tuna like me, your variant is toro. Awesome.
Yes, this means the Verizon version of the Tuna has a different device name. It has a different radio inside, and also in order to identify properly to the Android Market as a Verizon device it has to have a different name than the GSM version.
Anyways, if you follow the procedure to manually root the phone, since there are no automated methods yet, you will eventually reach the bootloader screen.
You'll see these gems on the bootloader screen:
PRODUCT NAME - tuna
VARIANT - *
If you own a GSM Tuna, your variant is maguro. If you have an LTE Tuna like me, your variant is toro. Awesome.
Yes, this means the Verizon version of the Tuna has a different device name. It has a different radio inside, and also in order to identify properly to the Android Market as a Verizon device it has to have a different name than the GSM version.
Same here. And like you guys have mentioned, I can't tell if it's a texture or if my screen is wonky. I had to bump to ~80% brightness before I finally said wow.
Unknown Soldier
Member
The texturing is an effect of the PenTile matrix. It's one reason why PenTile is shit. Fortunately Verizon is giving us until January 14th to decide if we want our Tunas or not, since it's the extended holiday return period right now. So if you can't stand it, return the phone, it will never get any better.
For those curious about why you qualified for an early upgrade and don't know why, it's because of the Annual Upgrade feature. The sales guy explained it to me in the store, once every 2 years you can upgrade your phone after only 1 year instead of 2. This is the replacement for New Every Two, so basically you can upgrade on a 2 years -> 1 year -> 2 years cycle if you get the Annual Upgrade. I'm not sure if only certain accounts qualify, I have the corporate discount through my employer (which is why my Tuna cost $250).
For those curious about why you qualified for an early upgrade and don't know why, it's because of the Annual Upgrade feature. The sales guy explained it to me in the store, once every 2 years you can upgrade your phone after only 1 year instead of 2. This is the replacement for New Every Two, so basically you can upgrade on a 2 years -> 1 year -> 2 years cycle if you get the Annual Upgrade. I'm not sure if only certain accounts qualify, I have the corporate discount through my employer (which is why my Tuna cost $250).
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
Why are some people referring to this as Tuna? What'd I miss?
The code name of the phone was Maguro which is a type of tuna. And Samsung, bless their hearts, left a mention in the final product:
Unknown Soldier
Member
Did you guys even read my post like 3 posts above? The product name actually is Tuna, Maguro is the GSM version of the Tuna, Toro is the LTE version.
how do you tell google to backup app data? is that present in gingerbread?
Jamesfrom818
Banned
I'm gonna try to get the Nexus for the upgrade price tomorrow. Should I be concerned about walking into a Verizon store with a rooted phone running a custom ROM?
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
Nah. It's not like you're asking for a replacement through insurance... they couldn't care less what you did to your current phone.
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
can anyone see if NFL mobile works on this yet?
does not work for me think they need to do an update
SteveWinwood
Member
This is the one thing that bothers me too. My old shitty phone had all sorts of really basic led colors and stuff for different things. This has one. White. Flashing. Someone recommended an app that might fix some of that earlier...
Edit: here it was I believe https://market.android.com/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflow&hl=en
Jamesfrom818
Banned
If the Nexus One had a HSPA+ radio, I might have never upgraded. The multicolor LED trackball is so awesome. Maybe the next Nexus will get it right.
Facebook noticifactions are green by default!
Does with T-mobile. Signed up for the value plan and it's much cheaper than their "Classic" plans and super cheap compared to the rest of the carriers.
Unknown Soldier
Member
It took me all of 5 minutes to start hating only having MTP and PTP available for USB transfer. Well, it was more like 3 minutes.
Trying to copy 22GB of my music from my Droid X's memory card to my computer took all of 15 minutes by removing the microSD card, sticking it in a USB adapter, and copying it to the hard drive.
Trying to copy 22GB of my music from my computer to the fucking Tuna keeps fucking dying after 10 minutes when it fucking says 'Device has disconnected' and then the fucking copy stops. The fucking Windows PC doesn't know when a file is already copied when using MTP/PTP and so I have to restart the fucking transfer from the beginning every fucking time. What the FUCK, Google? WHAT THE FUCK?
At least Apple provides a tool which can reliably copy your music back and forth between your computer and your microSD-lacking device. Fucking Google needs to get their shit together and write a transfer tool for PCs so you can fucking copy your fucking music to your fucking Tuna without going through fucking MTP/PTP.
FUCK.
Trying to copy 22GB of my music from my Droid X's memory card to my computer took all of 15 minutes by removing the microSD card, sticking it in a USB adapter, and copying it to the hard drive.
Trying to copy 22GB of my music from my computer to the fucking Tuna keeps fucking dying after 10 minutes when it fucking says 'Device has disconnected' and then the fucking copy stops. The fucking Windows PC doesn't know when a file is already copied when using MTP/PTP and so I have to restart the fucking transfer from the beginning every fucking time. What the FUCK, Google? WHAT THE FUCK?
At least Apple provides a tool which can reliably copy your music back and forth between your computer and your microSD-lacking device. Fucking Google needs to get their shit together and write a transfer tool for PCs so you can fucking copy your fucking music to your fucking Tuna without going through fucking MTP/PTP.
FUCK.
Jamesfrom818
Banned
Fuck. I changed my mind. Must remain strong. I'll just get a 2750 mah battery for my Thunderbolt.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Amazon has the Nexus up!! For Verizon. $150 and no bullshit Letstalk coupon codes, though.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0061R2A1S/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I caved. I bought one. It's not in stock, unfortunately.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0061R2A1S/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I caved. I bought one. It's not in stock, unfortunately.
Battersea Power Station
Member
Out of principle, I agree with you.
But get with the future, brah. There are various wireless file syncing solutions. For music specifically, there is Google Music.
There are fewer reasons than ever to use wired transfer.
Why don't you just use one of the many wifi or bluetooth file transfer apps?
Cut the cord, man. Or sell me your phone because you obviously hate it.
Toro ? Well, Olé motherfuckers !!
Because those are way slower than a USB file transfer and require more effort than sticking in a cable (unless Google puts in the work to provide perfect wireless syncing apps for each platform)
I personally don't care about the music. I care about having a proper filesystem. Google didn't really change what's under the hood (i.e. what it'll still end up seeing with Astro Manager) there are still sd partitions/folders and it's still a confusing mess from what I've heard. Perhaps some people only transfer music, videos and pictures but I'd like more flexibility than that..
So far after day one I gotta say they screen on this is pretty much the best thing I've on a portable device. Battery life wise I haven't figured this device out. Yesterday all I was doing was some massive downloading to get many of the apps I havd on to this phone. After doing this and other stuff for maybe an hour, it drained my battery a ton. This screen destroys battery life. I think I'm going to run the battery down all the way and then do full recharge. Hopefully things will improve here because if it can't outperform my old htc incredible, then we will have problems. I also notice some lag whenever I transition from the apps to widget section in the app drawer. Anyone else get this?
la flama blanca
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How do I get in on this without losing my unlimited data?
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