Might return mine today :(

[BSG4893]

I just had an iphone for 12 days because I got sick of waiting for the thunderbolt and I needed a new phone but I exchanged for the thunderbolt because Iwanted this phone for months... Let me tell you there isn't really anything you will be happy about if you exchange other than battery life.... The thunderbolt is the same and better in almost every way... The phone just came out its bound to have some glitches... The only thing I like about the I phone better is the music player but I think most people will say the apple music player is better then androids... The screen is brighter on the I phone but screen size is much more important on touch screen and swype texting if you downloaded it makes things so much easier... So far on 3g my thunderbolts internet runs a lot faster and smoother than the iphone did to be honest.... Androids market is growing so fast it will eventually be superior to apples and if you look from a monetary perspective if you keep your thunderbolt you will grandfather in an unlimited 4g plan and save money in the long run... If you want in a few months you can sell it on ebay and buy a different 4g phone at retail.... So in my overall opinion keep your thunderbolt over getting an iphone.... And I'd just like to reiterate this is just my opinion so don't bash please lol...

 

[CsonkaBear]

I just had an iphone for 12 days because I got sick of waiting for the thunderbolt and I needed a new phone but I exchanged for the thunderbolt because Iwanted this phone for months... Let me tell you there isn't really anything you will be happy about if you exchange other than battery life.... The thunderbolt is the same and better in almost every way... The phone just came out its bound to have some glitches... The only thing I like about the I phone better is the music player but I think most people will say the apple music player is better then androids... The screen is brighter on the I phone but screen size is much more important on touch screen and swype texting if you downloaded it makes things so much easier... So far on 3g my thunderbolts internet runs a lot faster and smoother than the iphone did to be honest.... Androids market is growing so fast it will eventually be superior to apples and if you look from a monetary perspective if you keep your thunderbolt you will grandfather in an unlimited 4g plan and save money in the long run... If you want in a few months you can sell it on and buy a different 4g phone at retail.... So in my overall opinion keep your thunderbolt over getting an iphone.... And I'd just like to reiterate this is just my opinion so don't bash please lol...

No bashing needed. Your results are very close to mine. I have 33% battery life after 14.5 hours. How bad is that.

We should compare battery production dates as I know for a fact mine was shipped last week and not sitting on BB or VZW shelves.

Maybe I have a better/newer battery. My battery has held up way better than what I had anticipated.

 

[alboboy10]

I got the 2750 battery ordered with mine, I don't care if it looks a little uglier and has a huge bump in the back, if it gets me through the whole day I will be more than happy.

Please, you guys are scaring me with all this talk about battery...I read on Engadget something about poor 4G and stuff also. I'm getting worried about getting this phone.

 

[CsonkaBear]

I got the 2750 battery ordered with mine, I don't care if it looks a little uglier and has a huge bump in the back, if it gets me through the whole day I will be more than happy.

Please, you guys are scaring me with all this talk about battery...I read on Engadget something about poor 4G and stuff also. I'm getting worried about getting this phone.

Run!!! Run away!!! The Thunderbolt is not meant for the faint of heart.

I've been running mine all day and am watching a podcast video as I type. Battery just hit 30% warning. I am trying to drain it but it;s keeping me up late.

What a pleasant problem.....

 

[TRIKOTRET]

Any chance that Verizon or HTC will be replacing the batteries with extended ones? Imagine how many people are complaining to Verizon. I dont think alot of customers are too technical about phones. So if they are used to using the phone with one charge per day and now they have to charge it twice or even 3 times, I would expect Verizon to do something about it. Otherwise they will be getting tons of returns :icon_eek:

 

[funkyb]

Fully agree, this is a good phone.

Concerning battery, I unplugged at 6am, now is 5pm, and have been using LTE data all day. Am currently at 50% on the dot.

- Powered by 1.21 Gigawatts of Android

Update: 15.75 hours in, just over 30% left. Switched from LTE to WiFi about 3 hrs ago, but doing more surfing too.

- Powered by 1.21 Gigawatts of Android

 

[slinky]

'Poor' Thunderbolt launch? Where are you getting that label?
I was at a VZ store & asked the salesmen how the sales of these were going compared to the iPhone & he said that they originally recieved 30 opening day & sold out of all of them. Recieved 20 more a couple of days from the sellout & had 2 left, one of which I was purchasing. He said they still have all their iPhones from the launch date.
How that's considered poor is beyond me.

Wow... they sold THIRTY phones in a day? That's a very, very low number for such a huge launch day. VZW was expecting to sell that number of iPhones in an hour, lol.

Per discussion with the people at 2 retail stores and the reports here, they have had significant problems activating the Thunderbolt. They wasted, on average, over an hour per customer trying to activate the 4G SIM card.

The battery life was expected to be so p-poor that they had thousands of extended batteries in stock to upsell to customers. Right now all stores are out of extended batteries. Most stores in New York have no Thunderbolt accessories on display anywhere. You have to ask to see the accessories.

The lack of internal memory showing up and being unaccessible from the PC, only 2.5GB showing up (supposedly a software glitch), things oddly missing or moved in the HTC Sense (like being able to easily move the phone to silent or vibrate mode by hitting the power button)... after weeks of delays it's as if this Verizon Wireless didn't really test or prepare itself too significantly for this launch.

PS - I still didn't receive my email from VZW that the Thunderbolt launched, lol.

 

[funkyb]

Well I, for one, welcome my new android overlord.

- Powered by 1.21 Gigawatts of Android

 

[CsonkaBear]

'Poor' Thunderbolt launch? Where are you getting that label?
I was at a VZ store & asked the salesmen how the sales of these were going compared to the iPhone & he said that they originally recieved 30 opening day & sold out of all of them. Recieved 20 more a couple of days from the sellout & had 2 left, one of which I was purchasing. He said they still have all their iPhones from the launch date.
How that's considered poor is beyond me.

Wow... they sold THIRTY phones in a day? That's a very, very low number for such a huge launch day. VZW was expecting to sell that number of iPhones in an hour, lol.

Per discussion with the people at 2 retail stores and the reports here, they have had significant problems activating the Thunderbolt. They wasted, on average, over an hour per customer trying to activate the 4G SIM card.

The battery life was expected to be so p-poor that they had thousands of extended batteries in stock to upsell to customers. Right now all stores are out of extended batteries. Most stores in New York have no Thunderbolt accessories on display anywhere. You have to ask to see the accessories.

The lack of internal memory showing up and being unaccessible from the PC, only 2.5GB showing up (supposedly a software glitch), things oddly missing or moved in the HTC Sense (like being able to easily move the phone to silent or vibrate mode by hitting the power button)... after weeks of delays it's as if this Verizon Wireless didn't really test or prepare itself too significantly for this launch.

PS - I still didn't receive my email from VZW that the Thunderbolt launched, lol.

Dude, it launched. You missed the boat.

 

[TDevilsG]

Update: my phone has been unplugged since 7:30AM today. I have used it for moderate amounts of surfing about 10-15 text messages, navigated through multiple applications and generally speaking put it through a typical day of use.

It sits at 38% percent currently after 16 hours of use. Far and way a drastic improvement over my first three days.

Things that I have done differently today to increase the battery life include:

1)Changing the beautiful home widget to a normal one, not the HTC one that has the flipping motion when the minutes change.

2)Changed the brightness to "auto brightness"

3)Did the "bump method" of charing the battery to green, unplugging for a minute, then replugging and charging to green. x 5 times

4)killed tasks occasionally but rarely.

5)Used a regular, HD background. Not live.

6)Turned off "check for wifi connections" as I have only used 4G.


And thats about it.

 

[motoconvert]

I haven't noticed anything bad with my battery... normal stuff for me. The only thing that I'm a little upset about is that it seem to loose network connection ectivity from time to time. Other then that I love this phone.!

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[TinGodz]

So I easily got 24hrs on the stock battery with medium usage throughout the day. This included texting all day, at least 2.5-3 hrs talk time, using 3G/wifi to browse the Internet/stream videos/download apps, etc. I simply just removed all of the useless widgets (i.e. FriendStream, a HUGE battery drain for me -- increased my battery by 12hrs after removing this alone, lol) and leave everything turned off until I actually use it (GPS, Bluetooth, syncs, wifi, 3G, etc.).

Basically, I just used a little common sense and this battery is more than sufficient. I have no real need in getting the extended battery other than the fact that I like the bigger back cover because it seems like it would better secure the phone in my hand.

 

[rage151]

YeS, battery life is not good. Even when on 3g all day. It is a small battery, period.

I got my TB on launch day and it will go back before my 14 days are up. With the exception of 4g, it is a standard Android smartphone. If you live in a 3g area that will not see 4g for awhile, get a Droid X. The screen/display on the X is superior to the TB's. Battery life is better as is call quality/signal. Moto has always made the best cell phone radio. Too soon to see how their 4g radio will perform, but I am willing to wait for the Bionic. I would rather deal with my rooted D1 till then.

TB is a good phone, but it is not great (except for being the only 4g VZW handset/option right now).

Overrated, IMO.

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[trebb]

The screen/display on the X is superior to the TB? Have you held them side by side?

The TB's looks much better. I've asked other people (who either have a DX or by holding my old one side to side) and they all agreed.

 

[UNC]

The screen/display on the X is superior to the TB? Have you held them side by side?

The TB's looks much better. I've asked other people (who either have a DX or by holding my old one side to side) and they all agreed.

The X's screen is superior... And to all you people saying your battery lasts all day... You must be doing next to nothing with your phone. With what I consider light use I get less than 8 hrs on a charge. This battery life is flat out unacceptable. I hate to say I don't believe you guys, but I don't believe you guys. You gotta show some screen caps. There is NO way any of you got more than 12 hours off a charge without severely limiting what your phone can do. Don't tell me to turn off sync and all of that stuff, because if I'm going to do all that what's the point of even having the features? I need push email and I need my GPS...

I don't get why you guys think limiting what you can do is acceptable...

Probably will be returned. Play will be out in a month, Bionic could be too. Both will probably be better options.

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