HTC Incredible 2 or Droid 3???

Hello all. I've just come from being an AT&T customer for abour 4 years and I am finally done. I have an HTC incredible 2 right now and it's great. But I'm not totally sold as of yet. I messed around with the Droid 3 in the store and wanted it, but they didn't have it in the store and said it had to be ordered. Is there anyone here that has owned both and prefer one over the other? This decision is literally keeping me up at night because I want it to be a phone I can stick with until I'm upgrade worthy. Also, I just came from having a Droid Charge. GREAT PHONE, SUCKY BATTERY LIFE and 4G isn't everywhere so it's always looking for a CDMA connection and it drains the crap out of my battery.
Things that influence my decision:
Data speeds and reliability
OS stability and flexibility
Camera quality and sound of videos (I found the sound in my Dinc 2 is horrible)
And most of all....battery drain and reliable remedies for it.
Note, i previously owned an iphone 4 on AT&T. Great phone, but can be a bit strick at times.
So any input PLEASE.

If you need a keyboard, D3 is a good phone. I don't know anything about the DI2 so I can't compare. That said, the D3 isn't without problems, battery life being one:
https://supportforums.motorola.com/thread/55243?tstart=30
Motorola said they're aware of the problem and we're expecting a fix soon based on a few rumors.
With the D3, I have not noticed data speed better or worse than my OG Droid or DX. The D3 has less problems than I've had without phones but isn't bug free. The biggest problem for me is battery life right now. The camera has a bug where close photos have a blue tint.
Checkout the motorola forums for the D3 and most of these are discussed in detail.

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Verizon, Is this true???
http://htcpedia.com/news/htc-incredible-desktop-charging-cradle.html
People want a desktop charging cradle for their phones. Why can one not be produced? A lot of us purchased the phones under the assumption that a dock was being produced. Are you going to allow Incredible owners to exchange their device for Droid X's? You can't get any manufacture to produce a dock that can charge? I really don't think people care THAT much if the home screen doesn't auto rotate. If the clock application is launched it works fine in landscape or you mean a dock that works in portrait isn't possible?????

no doubt!!!! check this one for another device:
http://www.fommy.com/view-full-page.asp?divid=HTC&cat=Cradles&skuno=80604
how difficult would it really be for them to just place the micro usb plug slightly lower to fit the inc? i love this cradle if the could duplicate it to fit the inc. it can't be that tough to do. and with minor tweaks you could lay it on it's side for landscape. it would be perfect....postrait AND landscape AND it has a slot underneath for an extra battery. the manufaturer would have a gold mine because they'd be the ONLY ones with anything to sell us!!!!

HTC Incredible 4g LTE

Excuse me, but where is the discussion forum for the HTC Droid Incredible 4g LTE? I upgraded to this phone back in June. Is there no one buying this phone? I know there's basically no community development on it, because the ******** at Verizon Wireless re-locked the bootloader, even though they initially allowed it to be unlocked. What gives? Does no one care about this phone?
I feel like Verizon Wireless has a severe lemon on their hands with this phone. Granted, spec-wise, it's not that horrible, but there are definitely issues with this handset. Where the heck is the community for this phone? I feel very alone having chosen this phone as my upgrade to the original HTC Incredible...

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HTC Incredible phone locked up

I'm having all kinds of problems with my HTC Incredible phone but I'll be happy if someone could tell me how to restart my phone. There was a update for Verizon App. icon, so I let it update, now it goes from this red eye picture to HTC quietly brilliant screen, then this screen with random words all over it. When I hold down the power button, nothing happens, wont shut off, wont restart nothing.

The screens you're describing are what I see when I restart: The Quietly Brilliant screen, the Droid eye, then the Droid words all over it ... this is the final screen until it boots up on its own. Are you saying it's not progressing past the Droid words screen? You're not touching the power button then, are you?
Try pulling the battery. Once you put it back in, let it start up on its own and see what happens. It takes a minute or two, so be patient. Post back and let me know what happens.

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These are the instructions that I followed to update my HTC Incredible to Gingerbread. They are straight forward and do not require a rooted phone.
Word of caution - this update is not without its problems (as demonstrated by the numerous issues posted here), apply at your own risk. I have had "low memory" issues, hardware information showing I have a 4.3" display, deleted applications (not a lot) and battery life issues. I have not had IM issues since I don't use IM. If I was to do it again, I would backup my phone and do a factory reset after I applied the update (to clear out applications and reinitialize the OS file system).
Hope this helps.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/verizon-droid-incredible/116534-ota-gingerbread.html#post1222770

leemrw wrote:
I received the update notification and everything proceeded as described in the PDF until the update reported I didn't have enough space in system memory to complete the process. It left me in the Application Management app. I dumped some data and moved some apps to SD but now I have not way to resume the update.
I performed a soft reset with the battery pull. The PDF does not cover this scenario.
What should I do now?
Thanks to the community. I can understanding the update process has been difficult. The next step I would take would be to do a master reset. Once you reset the phone it will prompt you to install the update. The steps to performa master reset are as follows:
From the home screen, touch Menu
Touch Settings
Touch SD& phone storage
Touch Factory data reset
Tap Reset phone or Reset phone & internal storage
Tap Erase everything
I hope this helps. Thanks.

Trying to get buy 1 get 1 droid HTC and 1 droid Click and upgrade account.

I currently have 3 lines. I want to get the familiy text and talk package for 700 mins. I have a $100 credit on my line. I am trying to upgrade 2 phones to the buy 1 get 1 HTC incredible and upgrade the 3rd line to the Droid Click. I cannot find the HTC deal once I log into my account. I know it can be done, but how. I also cannot find the live chat that VZW used to have. Is it gone?

If you try to order during the day, you will most likely get a chat box to appear.
I just went there and a chat box appeared.
Are all three lines eligible for an upgrade? (At least 20 months into the 24 month contract)

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Any VZW folks have an ETA on the 2150 extended battery coming in stock? I called my local store and they show it and it's priced at $60 for a HTC 2150 with back plate as well. They said the warehouse shows it hasn't come in yet.

This may not be correct but I found this:
http://htcpedia.com/news/htc-droid-incredible-2150-extended-battery.html
"HTC Incredible owners, as many of you know how frustrating it can be when the battery in your phone doesn't last enough to go through the day. We have been anxiously expecting to get some original HTC 2150mAh extended batteries for Droid Incredible around the end of May, however we have just learned that its release date has been pushed back to late July.
For more than few weeks we've had an estimated arrival date for HTC Droid Incredible 2150mAh extended battery around end of May. As of today it has been pushed back to late July 2010. We're not sure what has caused this delay, but this will definitely make some Incredible owners upset.
For those of you who are looking to get the 1500mAh extra capacity battery for HTC Incredible, you'll get a nice boost of power enough to get through the day with an extra 200mAh."

Headache with HTC Incredible

I have become flustered with the HTC Incredible. It has become so flaky that the battery will barely stay charged for 5 hours of standby time with everything minimized.
I was hoping to just go buy a replacement from the local Verizon store, however they are refusing to budge citing "contract" eligibility so I am stuck with a phone that is failing.
I had hoped to get things taken care of with Verizon, however their attitude seems to lay the blame on me but it is their provided equipment that has become an issue.
All I wanted to do is get another phone and even if it was a simple old flip phone I would have bought it but the store agents and even their so called on-line agents have their hands tied; yet they were given a supposed rating of being great by Consumer Reports. (I am giving them a flaming letter for that rating as Verizon has not wanted to help in any way.)
So this is one last try to perhaps someone in the Verizon Custer Center World, that can help. Can I get just a smple replacment phone or will I have to buy my own and replace it that way? If so, I might as well pay the early terminaton fee, cancel the service that you have not been providing very well and pay my money instead to AT&T.
Stephen in Atlanta with a DROID Headache

I am now a FORMER Verizon member after paying the ETF with much happiness. I decided after walking into the local Verizon store (company owned) that after the headachs and no action from the over the phone customer service that it was best to leave.
To this day I can not still figure out WHY I was being charged $173 a MONTH for the phone service I had. The store person could not figure that one out either and he offered to replace the Incrediable with the Incredible II.
As I had reached my limit with Verizon, I headed out of the store and headed for the APPLE store where I got me a ATT 4S which so far is holding to the predicted $75 month charge.
As for customer no service, that is pretty much a Verizon thing.... ATT, excellant communication and I can EVEN email them too directly.
Have fun every one.
BYE BYE

Verizon, why is HTC Incredible such an awful device?

Hey Verizon,
I wonder if you actively read/censor these forums because here is my question:
Why do you continue to sell/support awful phones such as the HTC Incredible?
I'm on my 2nd Incredible which is properly updated, yadda yadda yadda. It still suffers from common issues that YOU DENY exist. I'm on my second replacement phone (due to a reboot loop, which although was well documented in various parts of the internet you swear didn't exist) which now exhibits the same issues (only now it's out of warranty, convenient for you, yeah?). Of course, despite a multitude of internet posts, youtube videos showcasing the behavior, etc., you swear it doesn't exist. So my question to you is why do you continue to ally yourselves with such shoddy products/maufacturers?
Certainly you must expect that people will be upset when they purchase a device that doesn't last the terms of your 2-year contract (I'm up in December, and you can bet I'm not continuing)? Certainly you must feel the financial letdown from folks cancelling after their 2-years are up and jumping ship to ATT, T-Mobile, Virgin, or (the really smart) deciding US wireless is a sham? I'm assuming this must hit your bottom line or your shareholders somehow?
I'm sure your average smartphone user doesn't want to remove his/her SD card periodically to prevent (temporarily) reboots, and doesn't want to factory reset their phone to get an OTA update that YOU KNOW is faulty. My phone rarely operates free of issue as a phone, free of issue as a camera, or free of issue as a smartphone. Of course yes, I know those problems that many people are having and have documented on these forums and others don't exist (in your minds at least) but humor me here.
Why do you continue to push devices you know are sub-par and you know won't last? What do you expect to gain?
Personally, I'm free from my 2-year contract (wish I could have had a phone that lasted that long) in about 60 days, which is a huge relief because I've grown tired of paying for 4G LTE service when the majority of the time I'm in 1X (not to mention your illegal data throttling on my Grandfathered "unlimited" account once I've hit the 2GB limit that I never agreed to. Breach of contract anyone?), at which point I'll be dropping your business forever. So, one account soon to be down, how is that business model working for you Verizon?
If you've made it this far (and if this post is miraculously not deleted) I urge you:
Consumer: drop these ******** as soon as you can.
Verizon: get in touch with me, you've got all my info. Lend me a phone that will work (a WORKING phone, one capable of sending/receiving calls without random reboots) until Dec 06th and after that I'll send it back to you along with my last payment and we'll never have to converse again.
If you're in a similar boat forum members, please chime in.
Thanks for your time.

My Incredible was lovely. Didn't have a single issue with it. Traded it in for a Moto Razr M and somehow I feel like I ditched an old faithful friend. My first Razr M crapped out and let me down. Had to exchange it for another one. Sure Verizon's expensive and their data allowances are meager, miniscule and paltry, but I can live with that for now. So everyone's experience is different. Sorry you've had issues with your Droid Inc.

HTC Incredible reboot fix that works and does NOT require hard reset

Like many of you unfortunate souls out there I have had my HTC Incredible go into a rebooting loop over the last month or so. The following recounts some observations and and a solution which appears to work.
First off, my son and I both have the same phone and software versions and apps. He does NOT get email on his phone because he does not want to. I do. His phone has NEVER rebooted. Mine has done so numerous times. My business partner also has the identical phone and software version, lives within 200 yards of me, and uses the email and has had numerous reboots and has gotten them even sooner than I saw them at first. My partner and I have set up email attachments and downloads to go to the SD card. So much for background info. Here is what I did to fix the problem followed by some other observations:
Open up the case of the phone and remove the battery
Remove the SD card from the phone.
Put it into an adapter that allows you to access files directly on your computer. In my case this was a Windows PC running Windows 7.
Mount the SD card in your computer and open up the browser to see the files on the SD card.
Look for a folder called ".Mail"
If your phone is like mine you will see hundreds of files, some of zero length. This was even though I had deleted most of the emails I received on my phone.
Proceed to directly delete any of the zero length files. For that matter, you may have other files like jpg's laying around of uncertain origin. I got rid of these and other strange files that seemed attached to no documents at all.
Remove the SD card and reinsert into your phone. Put the battery back in and the cover on then restart the phone. Your phone should run properly and you should not see any negative consequences from the files you deleted previously.
Some other observations relevant to this solution that bolsters my theory that this problem has something to do with the email application and also a problem with file system corruption on the SD card as a consequence of it.
I had previously seen the email application put some mail from a different account I was using into my main account. The files could not be deleted and even trying to do so would cause the mail app to force close.
My son has never seen the problem despite being in the same environment with the same phone and software. Relevant difference to me was that he was NOT using email and I was.
The email app clearly has bugs if it is leaving behind hundreds of files even if you delete the emails. Why? As a software engineer my first instinct would be to look to see if the file system locks were properly synchronized when the email app is writing to the flash file system. I am not conversant in Android OS programming nor the app code itself so this is speculative on my part. I would also look for a timeout on reboots if file system enumerations take too long. Lots of files on a system might trigger a premature timeout and reboot. Once again, this is speculative on my part but I sure wish I had the code to debug this myself.
These issues seem to coincide with a rapid rise in network traffic most likely because of the iPad 2/iPhone support by Verizon. I wonder if this additional traffic load on the network is opening up timing holes in the software because of backoff and retry intervals for certain apps. Once again I suspect the email app especially because it is vulnerable to network traffic issues as it tries to get email account updates.
I could be wrong about my theory as to why the problem is happening. My solution seems to work. As far as pulling the battery and putting it near your AC in the car, that did NOT work for me at all. Leaving the phone out of its protective case also had no effect. Only screwing with the files on the SD card mattered.
I hope this helps.

This problem has been seen for MONTHS now by people besides myself. My business partner is about to put a bullet in his phone because this has been happening for far longer than mine. I have little confidence in a fix anytime soon because this problem has been persistent for some time and there is a lot of denial in the field by Verizon. Verizon has to depend on HTC and Google besides themselves for fixes. How much would you like to wager on how this business relationship is working out? The first step in any solution is for a company to take some responsibility for it and so far no company has.

I've given up on the HTC Incredible

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I feel the same about my former Blackberry Bold and 8800. Blackberry knows/knew how to build a good solid handset.

Bridge CS5 doesn't recognize my HTC Incredible 2 smartphone.

When I configure my HTC Incredible 2 smartphone to connect to my Windows 7 OS as another drive and plug it into a USB port, it recognizes the drive as a camera or card reader but produces the error message: "Failed to obtain thumbnails from the device. The device is not connected or is busy." The Get Photos button is also grayed out. When my smartphone is first connected to the PC it gives me an option to install drivers and asks to insert disk, but I do not recall getting a driver disk with the phone and, when I visit the HTC web site, I have no idea what download might address this particular issue. The bottom line is that without Bridge's recognitioon, its features are unavailable and I can only copy and paste when I want to download photos. Would appreciate suggestions.

Thanks for your suggestions. Changing the JPG file association to Photoshop
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Still get the same error message about failing to load the thumbnails which
terminates the download process as far as Bridge is concerned. I also talked
to someone at HTC and it appears to be a third party driver issue; i.e.
There is no driver addressing the issue I raised. I can manipulate the phone
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I switched from HTC Eris to HTC Incredible 2. I want to transfer my Footprints thumbnails and data to HTC Incredible 2. On the HTC Eris there is a folder on the SD card called .footprint that contains the footnotes.db file and folders for thumbnails and voices. The thumbnails for the footprints I have created are in the proper folder.
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HTC Incredible - Won't stop rebooting

My HTC Incredible has been cycling on and off, continuously, for the past 3 hours. I brought it into the store last week and they said the only way to fix it was a hard reset, and that this happens often when you download applications. I didn't want to lose all my photos (haven't figured out how to sync the phone with my Mac), so didn't do the hard reset there.
Now I can't even make a phone call to get support.
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2. Is this the case with all PC phones -- where like PCs, they get viruses all the time -- so should I bite the bullet and buy an iPhone before my contract is up?
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Hi amynyc,
I completely understand your frustration. I agree with the store rep and would suggest a Master Reset:
Touch Settings
Touch SD & phone storage
Touch Factory data reset
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Tap Erase everything
However, as long as your pictures are stored to your SD card vs. the internal memory of the device, they will not be erased after completing a Master Reset. Additionally, if you would like to store you pictures to your PC, you will need a Card Reader. I am hopeful this information will resolve your issue. Please advise if require further assistance.
Thank you for you contribution to our community forums,

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