You shut off or restart your computer daily or so right? Same thing
Actually I personally haven't shut off my computer since I built the thing in february minus 2 power outages.... i7 and Solid State are a different world than Androids and SD cards...
And to you guys talking about WiMAX vs LTE....you are exactly right. I meant to comapre to 3g hence toggling 4g off when i go into those areas... I was typing and not thinking (from work) so my point failed. 3g on the TBolt vs 4gWiMAX on the Evo3d...the Evo still gets better battery life. Don't believe me? Go get one, you can return it within 30 days, hassle free. I mistyped a little in that thread, what I meant to say is...I get worse battery life on 3g than the other phone did on 4g.
I like tinkering with roms, not a big deal. I like playing will that stuff just as much as the next guy, otherwise I would have an iPhone. But....a lot of the tBolt roms blow. Most blow. They still have flaws that cause random reboots or take away pure functionality. That wasn't really the case on the OG droid, likely because of bootloaders and the lack of leaks.
The EVO3d worked nice out of the box. Why couldn't the Thunderbolt? Rooting a phone should be an option, not the only way to make it work as it should have to begin with. I am going to root regardless and install custom roms...but that shouldn't be because they never got it right at the factory. It should be able to do certain things...like..you know sit idle without rebooting? I have had SEVEN thunderbolts. They all were randomly rebooting before this last update..even with NO 3rd party apps. That's ridiculous. That update should have came weeks not months after the launch. I shouldnt HAVE to reboot it either. You can say what you will about everything but when it boils down to it, how many times do your friends restart their iPhones? I hate Apple..don't get me wrong. Iphones freeze and crash. Seen it happen...I am not defending the phone either so no trolling me please. But if they can figure it out, Android can. Period. So to say it's a necessity, is not proper. Because even though those occur in the iWorld, it is far and few between.
But I love Android. Yet the topic here is : The thunderbolt is disappointing. I am not saying either the iPhone , Tbolt, or EVO3d is a superior phone....more like...just the TBolt is so lackluster compared to everything else released in a similar market. It feels like a burden...and has been one.
I just got 4g LTE in my area on Monday of this week. My battery lasts 15 hours, I am going to try another rom (running BAMF 3.0 RC4.9) but....I will likely bitch and complain enough that when the Bionic releases I get it for free or at an extreme discount. Verizon will do that if you pay them enough monthly!
(yeayea rambling again)
TLDR:
Radios aside, the Thunderbolt is flat out disappointing because it isn't reliable and HAS to be rooted AND have extra accessories/charging time to even be useful at all. Not to mention every other rebooting, crashing, non-app delivering problem it has had. But rooted with the right stuff? It's tolerable. No one that loves their money wants to use this for the next 2 years and it hasn't hit the 6 month mark yet. That's why it's disappointing. But I have it for now and will cry if I want to.