Whew! My phone keyboard's back key just had workout! I think there might have been more threads/posts in the iPhone forum than the Droid X before the iPhone was released. That forum just exploded in the time of the announcement and the release.
AZSALUKI wrote:heck, i believe the iphone forum created more threads than any android device within a month of it's realease, but i don't believe it's because the iphone is awful. the droidX forum is by far the most active of any forum. does that make it the wrost device that verizon carries?
vereyezuhn wrote:I don't know if you read my whole post or just the part you isolated, but I did cover this in my post, and it proves my point... Your issues on a few of your TBolts started RIGHT when receiving them - which leads me to believe the PHONE is the issue.... This is not the case for many people. Many say they had their TBolt well past the 2 week period, and it JUST started having issues... That leads me to believe it's an app issue, NOT a phone issue. I remember you saying your first TBolt was the least of your problems and you regret getting so many replacements.. I'm guessing that one took some time to show problems? App.
It literally just does not make sense to me, and I cannot fathom any other reason as to why a phone would suddenly, after working for so long, just go haywire and stop working as it should. Literally makes NO sense. Other than it's something the user did to it (whether it be an app, website viewed, etc) Things don't just go bad on their own with no reason (thus making my point of having problems when first receiving the phone tracing back to a bad phone initially) If your brakes go bad on your car after only a year, it's probably because you wait till the last second and slam on them. If your computer crashes after having it for a year or two, it's most likely the stuff you put on it/things you view on it. Same thing goes for your phones. If you received a phone that had issues to start with, I'm in no way saying that is caused by an app. How could it be? There must be something wrong with the way that one phone was made.... Now, if you get one that started acting up after months of having it, yeah I'm more inclined to say it's something the user did to it. If you literally take a phone and don't use it at all for months, with only charging the battery to keep it alive, it will not go bad for years and years. Because you didn't do anything to it.
Yes I read the whole post sorry I didn't quote the whole thing. Ok my original Thunderbolt had connection issues from the start but since I'm use to wierd stuff on smart phones I didn't really think anything of it. I would just pull the battery, restart it, or try again later. I would also call tech support and I would get answers like "it's our new 4g" , " try a master reset ", and the usual VZW support answers to stuff they know nothing about. Either way I kept the phone and started talking to HTC directly and they had me emailing them when things would happen and gave me ways to work around it so in the beginning I felt since I got the phone early and it was new I dealt with the issues and hoped my feed back to the manufacture would help in the process of getting it patched up. I was having problems like the message bubble stating I had a text but no text was unread, no data connection, not downloading mms, ect and I started emailing HTC on the 11th day I had it. HTC and VZW both stating the whole time that there is an update being worked on and most of the issues are being addressed with it. Then before the update I had all my texts delete themselves twice and both times I called VZW and VZW forwarded me to HTC and they stated that my hardware was the issue and I would need to have it replaced. Thats where the replacements start I would say my problems at that point were manageable up to that point. I got the update around the time I was waiting for the replacement to show up but was convinced my original TB was bad due to what I was told about my text issue. Then I got a replacement that the lower trim was falling off right out of the box but I activated it and gave it a try. That night the update installed and the next afternoon while trying to use the hotspot it had a massive brain fart and rebooted twice in 6 hours before I made to a store to show them my new issues. Replacement #2, VZW and HTC reps speculated that settings or apps stored in my gmail account might be getting transferred to the new device so I started a new gmail to settle that. Only downloading minimal apps with in a 24 hour period ( oh and the update ) the TB rebooted while making a call ( something my original never did ) and rebooted a few times a day there after also still having connection issues and the text message bubble staying on. TB #3 arrives and even thought the screen isn't right and light comes out around the bottom of it a again activate it. This time I told myself to just deal with it and lower my standards in hopes that it will be better but then the reboots started and the connection issues. So I got a new SIM card as per VZW support and that seemed to help for a day with data but still reboots. Note the whole time my girlfriend with a freakin Iphone 3g is telling me " why do you want me to get a Droid " because she is signing for phone after phone showing up at the house and knows if I'm the phone talking to someone it's tech support. The last straw was when I made a call to VZW support and the tech said "sorry your screen isn't right and sorry your TB reboots but at this point thats normal and the only thing I can do is replace it again". My response to that was a new Thunderbolt wont have cosmetic issues and if a deny the update then I will be back to acceptable till you guys release another update. Her response is " there is no way I can send out a new TB but I can send you a new Charge " . I was blown away that I could get a more expensive device and they replaced my extended battery and case but wouldn't just send me a TB that hadn't been taken apart. vereyzuhn dont think I dont believe what you're saying is true I just don't accept what you're saying is acceptable since I'm on my forth Android powered device second 4g and the only device that encouraged me to email the manufacture, call VZW almost daily, and sign up for this forum was the Thunderbolt. Maybe it is just a none compatible app but if that is the case then why doesn't VZW take some time to find out what app or apps cause these problems or why these apps effect the TB this way. Its been almost three months since release and the last update I think we all can agree was a flop and thats why I gave up on my TB. My time spent dealing with it became an issue I wanted to enjoy my device not fight with it. Debating on here about whats going on with it and what could be it's problems never fixed it for me so peace out Thunderbolt. I will still pop in here to read a chat but now it's for fun and not due to frustration. Thanks for chatting 
