Motorola XPRT

So I went to Sprint over the weekend and played with the phone.... I LOVED it! I was really hoping that i woulndt, but I did! Now I am in a hard spot! I like my Nexus, but I also like the Moto! I will wait until i find one on Craigslist so I can get it cheaper..maybe by then the Nexus will get its signal issues resolved.

BTW the only draw back on the XPRT is the camera..its one the lamest 5 megapixels I have seen! But then again this is not a media device, but still...in no way is that even close to a real 5mp camera.

Other than that I like it!

its a 1ghz cpu so there will be some heat released. I have experienced the same warm up feeling when talking. I'm trying to get a wired earpiece soon just in case all the radiation fuzz about cellphones is real.

Well I Officailly have my Nexus S up for sale... this morning it kept losing data connection, and that was my last straw! Now I went to Amazon and they have the XPRT for $399, not bad, it will be an even swap for me!

By the way do any of you have Amazon Cloud Player or use Pandora? How's the connection when playing any of these 2?

On my NS4G it takes Pandora about 1 minute literally (or longer) to go to the next Song!!

cheech4 said:

update; do not buy any skins or cases that snap on or holsters for the XPRT. there is nothing out there available and what ever they have for the Droid pro on Verizon wont work. I tried with a body glove case and now i tried with screen protectors. too small, luckily i bought the cheesy cheap ones, the screen on the XPRT although same size the keyboard is slightly different which makes the screen slightly bigger.

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Well I Officailly have my Nexus S up for sale... this morning it kept losing data connection, and that was my last straw! Now I went to Amazon and they have the XPRT for $399, not bad, it will be an even swap for me!

By the way do any of you have Amazon Cloud Player or use Pandora? How's the connection when playing any of these 2?

On my NS4G it takes Pandora about 1 minute literally (or longer) to go to the next Song!!

Hi Jesse,
I used Amazon Cloud Player often. The 3G connection is really good. I think signal strength is definitely a plus for this phone. I live in an urban area so my coverage is always very reliable. I cannot speak for suburban areas. I ditched Pandora because of the advertisements were so annoying and repetitive. BTW, Amazon CP caches your music to use it when you don't get signal(I experience this when using the subway).

Jesse813 said:

Well I Officailly have my Nexus S up for sale...

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I forgot to mention that Amazon will trade in your NS4G and will send you a gift card that you can use to buy another phone from them. 399 is the exact same price at Sprint. I bought it at my local Sprint store at full price because it is a good investment given the GSM radio.

jjhong said:

I forgot to mention that Amazon will trade in your NS4G and will send you a gift card that you can use to buy another phone from them. 399 is the exact same price at Sprint. I bought it at my local Sprint store at full price because it is a good investment given the GSM radio.

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HUh... interesting on the Amazon buy back thing , let me check it out ( not good $110 for an Evo! And $185 for my Nexus..oh heck no LOL), and thanks for your feedback regarding the Amazon player,

if you dont mind...how Do I do that cache thing?

it should do it automatically. to verify this go turn your NS4G in airplane mode and open amazon cloud player and play a song you have played recently while on 3G/Wifi. Make sure you have the latest and greatest ACP version

cheech4 said:

does anyone run launcher pro in there XPRT and would it make sense too?

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Great question...i also wondered the same. I want to see what kind of homescreens everyone is working with. I feel like mine is just missing a bit more inspiration to it. THE SEVEN SCREENS IS SO MUCH MORE THAN REALIZED! lol...

I'd start a post your homescreen thread, but I need to get a good one so i can post mine first (as should be the ritual). ALSO, is there a screen capture shortcut?? Like hold 2 buttons down or something? Android seems to be lacking this...

cheech4 said:

update; do not buy any skins or cases that snap on or holsters for the XPRT. there is nothing out there available and what ever they have for the Droid pro on Verizon wont work. I tried with a body glove case and now i tried with screen protectors. too small, luckily i bought the cheesy cheap ones, the screen on the XPRT although same size the keyboard is slightly different which makes the screen slightly bigger.

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I use the "Ripoff" case that is made for iphone. I have used "ripoff" with my last three phones and love them. They have a really great belt clip and have never dropped a phone. It was too tight a fit for having the silicon sleeve on too however.

cheech4 said:

can any one please tell me how to use the vibrate feature on this phone. i cant for the life of me figure out how to get my texts messages to vibrate. i have tried every setting i think and nothing works. it either rings with sound or stays quite.

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Menu>Sound>Vibrate. Select Always, Never, Only in Silent, Only when not Silent.

cheech4 said:

does anyone run launcher pro in there XPRT and would it make sense too?

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I am using it. It works great!

I'll try to nail a bunch of questions in one post:

1. Never use a task killer. You will eat your battery much more monitoring the usage with killer than this task manager. Task manager alerts you when your RAM usage is a bit high and you can auto-end apps that would normally use a lot of RAM if allowed to run in the background, thus eating battery. I put a bunch of apps on auto-end but I'm skeptical as to whether it's working. What you need is Watchdog. It will tell you what apps are using too much CPU, which will truly slow down your phone. There is a free Lite version in the Market.

2. Always use LauncherPro. The end.

3. I've yet to meet an Android phone that doesn't warm up to some capacity when being used for more than 10 mins in whatever form or fashion you are using it. If you're worried, you can download an internal temp gauge that will tell you what the battery's temp is. But what good will that do since you don't want to do anything to cool it down besides not use the phone for a minute.

4. Download a freeware called Audio Profile Manager. You can only load 3 profiles in the free version, but I have mine set to a sleep setting where it only rings at night, no notifications. The difference with Audio Profile is you can tell it to SPECIFICALLY vibrate for texts ONLY. I'm sure there's other ones like it. You can also set one to do all vibrate, but why would you do that when there should be a toggle widget that allows you to set it to vibrate only. If not, hit the sleep button on top, hit it again, slide the arrow on the right to the left and you're in vibrate.

5. I am a previous BB user. I loved my BB. But Android was so much more appealing. And now that this phone is out, BB has a run for their money.

6. If you want a good camera on a cell phone, go buy a camera, not a phone. But this one does fine for those not in photography classes or professional shooting.

7. No one asked about this, but ROOT THIS PHONE! There are instructions at the top about doing so. Why??? You can get rid of Sprint's crappy bloatware that is killing some of your RAM/battery/CPU. Also, you can have a free WiFi Tether, which I personally don't care about. And rooting won't cause you to lose anything you currently have. You can just delete the junk. Even if that's all you do, do it.


Bottom line, after coming from the Samsung Transform, this is a FANTASTIC phone. I've had a few issues where it will lock up and reboot itself, but I'm finding that I don't care because it reboots in under 30 seconds. And I'm rarely doing anything important when it does. Now that I've rooted, hopefully I will have less of those issues.

The end. Have a happy day/2 years now that you own this phone.