After bad experience with HTC Inc, should I move to IPhone4 or give HTC Inc2 a shot?

[tmaxx]

My HTC Incredible is officially dead.  I can't get to the screen to do a hard reset since the phone keeps resetting continuously.  The phone is 1 year 2 weeks old.  No warranty left, so I am stuck buying a new phone.  This is the first phone I have owned that died.  My previous phone was a Motorola Q and it lasted for three years with no issues.  My experience with the HTC Incredible has left a bad taste in my mouth!

So I've got a couple choices it seems for a new phone.  The IPhone4, HTC Incredible 2 or Droid X.  I have absolutely no experience with IPhones.  I have an IPOD nano which has worked fine.  Anyway, I am looking for some feedback on the pros and cons of either of these phones.  Am I being unreasonable ditching the android phone altogether?  I actually loved the HTC Incredible when it was working.  I liked all the apps on the android market.  I liked the GPS feature using google maps.  What I didn't like was the poor battery life.  I had to have a charger at home, my car and at my work desk.  I was just about to upgrade to a bigger battery when my phone died.  And of course what I hate is that it lasted shortly over a year.

I am going to have to buy another phone in the next few days.  My wife is up for a phone renewal so I'll probably use her upgrade to get a new phone.  I'll seriously consider getting an extended warranty as well to cover the phone up to two years

Thanks for any feedback. 

[Wildman]

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tmaxx wrote:

My HTC Incredible is officially dead.  I can't get to the screen to do a hard reset since the phone keeps resetting continuously.  The phone is 1 year 2 weeks old.  No warranty left, so I am stuck buying a new phone.  This is the first phone I have owned that died

Have you tried booting into Bootloader and see if it can be hardrest...  Hold volume down and power to enter bootloader and select Factory Reset..

My previous phone was a Motorola Q and it lasted for three years with no issues.  My experience with the HTC Incredible has left a bad taste in my mouth!

I am reverse all Motorola devices I had gave me issues except the Droid X..

So I've got a couple choices it seems for a new phone.  The IPhone4, HTC Incredible 2 or Droid X.  I have absolutely no experience with IPhones.  I have an IPOD nano which has worked fine.  Anyway, I am looking for some feedback on the pros and cons of either of these phones. 

iPhone aew over hyped the device was very unique and innovating when it was first released but nothing special now..

Am I being unreasonable ditching the android phone altogether?  I actually loved the HTC Incredible when it was working.  I liked all the apps on the android market.  I liked the GPS feature using google maps.  What I didn't like was the poor battery life.  I had to have a charger at home, my car and at my work desk.  I was just about to upgrade to a bigger battery when my phone died. 

HTC has some incredible devices but their battery life does fall short but I am a extended battery fan..  Makes a big difference.

And of course what I hate is that it lasted shortly over a year.

Try the Bootloader option above because you may can bring it back unless you have other issues but rebooting.

I am going to have to buy another phone in the next few days.  My wife is up for a phone renewal so I'll probably use her upgrade to get a new phone.  I'll seriously consider getting an extended warranty as well to cover the phone up to two years

I am happy with my Thunderbolt but is I had to pick from your list I would go with the Incredible 2 but this is my opinion but you may have specific features that interest you,,,  I wouldn't do a iPhone if you are into customizing the device because it is as limited as you get.

Thanks for any feedback. 

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[poe_diddley]

I don't know about you but this is my last Android. I'm going iPhone as soon as I can upgrade. Hate on if u will....

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tmaxx wrote:

My HTC Incredible is officially dead.  I can't get to the screen to do a hard reset since the phone keeps resetting continuously.  The phone is 1 year 2 weeks old.  No warranty left, so I am stuck buying a new phone.  This is the first phone I have owned that died.  My previous phone was a Motorola Q and it lasted for three years with no issues.  My experience with the HTC Incredible has left a bad taste in my mouth!

So I've got a couple choices it seems for a new phone.  The IPhone4, HTC Incredible 2 or Droid X.  I have absolutely no experience with IPhones.  I have an IPOD nano which has worked fine.  Anyway, I am looking for some feedback on the pros and cons of either of these phones.  Am I being unreasonable ditching the android phone altogether?  I actually loved the HTC Incredible when it was working.  I liked all the apps on the android market.  I liked the GPS feature using google maps.  What I didn't like was the poor battery life.  I had to have a charger at home, my car and at my work desk.  I was just about to upgrade to a bigger battery when my phone died.  And of course what I hate is that it lasted shortly over a year.

I am going to have to buy another phone in the next few days.  My wife is up for a phone renewal so I'll probably use her upgrade to get a new phone.  I'll seriously consider getting an extended warranty as well to cover the phone up to two years

Thanks for any feedback. 

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[tmaxx · Accepted solution]

Wooo Hooo!  I went to another Verizon store today and asked them to put a new battery in my phone to see if that helped any.  They first tried a master reset but couldn't get the phone to boot.  It kept rebooting continuously.  They put in a new battery and wala!  It boot up.  I told them I didn't want to buy their battery.  I am thinking about the Seidio Innocell 3500 mAh.  Is this a good choice?

thanks.

[SLCwHTCINC]

I have the Seido 3500 for my Incredible.  I does last longer and per Seidio you can charge it overnight.  The only time it is off the phone is when I'm trouble shooting.  All in all, I think it is almost a mandatory accessory.  Their belt clip for it is also excellent.

[Larissa]

So my bf has a apple Iphone 4 and I have a droid incredible. My phone kills my bfs Iphone as far as potential functions are concerned. At the same time... HTC/android boost of all the things it COULD do without mentioning the fact that not ALL phones can actually handle all of these things perfectly.

So whats the result of this? I'll give you some real life examples

Crap battery life bc the phone does way too much. For example, my google maps does turn by turn navigation and is way easier to use than the google maps on my bfs IPhone 4! HOWEVER, at least the iphone doesn't randomly restart mid-navigation bc if you have turn by turn navigation/GPS on the battery gets hot and the phone crashes and reboots like it does on the droid inc. (not the only one with a restarting problem with motorolla/htc phones.. plenty of forums dedicated to this and the people in the verizon store told me this.. but this is NOT an common issue on the iphone)

Phone been unplugged since 10 am.. I leave for camping trip around 2:30 pm.. I use the internet and google maps to navigate on and off to see if we are close/going the right way/find stores off interstate occasionally on our 3 hour road trip.. browser/app is easy to navigate and lightening fast. We arrive 7 my phone has 10% battery life...  Do the same thing on iphone for another trip google maps/internet to look up addresses etc.. his phone has been unplugged since 5 am (and we both played wordfued off and on all day).. its 10 pm.. his phone is at 55%! We use his the rest of the camping trip since mine DIED and plugs are hard to come by.

Finding somewhere to eat after clicking a website link on urban spoon app.. his phone won't open up menu on the website bc it uses flash..my phone opens up the menu.. as I scroll through it or try to look at a different part BAM! browser closes out!! try again.. same thing.. ocassionally phone restarts.. battery too hot maybe? In the end.. we didn't really get to look at the menus too close but I did get an idea of what they had from that preview I got before the browser crashed!! (opera, stock browser, dolphin HD) and im a bit annoyed bc my phone restarted and I am thinking I SHOULD be able to view this!

So what do you want this phone for?? Do you want to add an extended battery.. BTW.. its going to make your phone really fat/ugly and defeat the purpose of the slim design. If so the droid may be more useful.. but be aware that HTC is not as polished as apple although they are definitely innovative.. Thus its only a matter of time before something else goes wrong. Do you want a phone that is comparatively overpriced but extremely simple.. can't do much to it but it is rather useful and it doesn't have a removeable battery (because it never needs a battery pull!) You can get an app to do anything and everything you ever dreamed on the droid w/o voiding the warrently!.. but it might also do more than you dreamed by forcing its self shut or sending your phone into restart mode or freezing it. You can do a lot with Apple aps (whatever apple allows you to do if you dont jailbreak).. but you might have to pay for it by ruining your warrently with jailbreaking or literally as many free apps on droid cost money on iphone.. So you decide what is important to you.. doing everything  you could want with your android phone (and sometimes nothing as it is not the most reliable device) or several things on your simple iphone??