Considering Commando over HTC Incredible 2 for my first Android. Thoughts?

The Commando is tough and waterproof, and the screen is harder to press. I have a droid x and a commando, and an old blackberry. the Incredible is sweet but not as durable as the commando and the incredible probably is easier to use, but not as tough. personally, I love the commando. I have not seen any custom roms for the commando. The incredible has plenty.
Check out my underwater waterproof casio commando videos at my youtube channel CasioCommandoFun

Casio C771 G'zOne Commando
I was watching a Ken Block, insane Gymkhana video, under water with my Casio Commando, in a creek at Brevard College, in Brevard North Carolina. The water temperature was ice cold on July 4th, 2011. You have to make sure all doors on the phone are closed so you will not damage the phone. The screen is very sensitive to the temperature of the water. The water will actually control the phone because the phone thinks the water is your fingers. So is takes practice to enter the phone into the water without stopping the video.

To record videos underwater with the Casio Commando, you have to
1) call someone and stay on the call
2) start the camcorder recording
3) tap the power button to turn off the screen. The phone thinks the water is your fingers and
the water will control your phone to do weird things such as stop recording. The sound of the speakers on the phone gets clogged with water so it does not sound good until the water drains out of the speakers. I blow on the different doors and holes on the phone to clear the water so I can hear the speakers. I wait on the phone to dry
completely before charging again or opening the doors for any reason.
I do own a Casio Commando activated, a Droid X activated and a Blackberry activated.
Check out my video at the link below.

Search for my channel on you tube CasioCommandoFun to see my video

I would like for someone to create an app so I can disable the
screen so I can record video underwater without making a phone call.
I have owned the Casio Commando for 2 months and I really love it.

Get the Commando if you do anything out doors I've fallen in the ocean with it and left it on my back porch in the rain on accident. Have also dropped it in the sand on the beach. Never had a smartphone before (I just used the Iphone 4 I bought for my girlfriend if I needed something) and honestly none would have lasted very long. I got the Commando because Casio makes great rugged phones which I've had before (no smart Casio Phones before this one) and just took a shot at having one. VERY VERY happy I did this phone is GREAT.

It was pretty slow and laggy when I first got it, but it is very simple to root. I used Superone Click and it was as easy as plugging it in and hitting ROOT. Then used Titanium Back-up to backup everything and then removed all the Verizon Bloatware and non needed apps/programs. Now it is faster than my girls iPhone 4 and my mom's Droid X2 lol. (theirs aren't rooted)

If you would like to know more there is a thread I started showing tips to improve its speed/performance.

http://androidforums.com/commando-all-things-root/408950-list-apps-safely-remove-tips.html

Or a thread where a few of us discussed these tips and list of apps that are safe to remove as we went along.

http://androidforums.com/commando-all-things-root/400879-newbie-rooting-question.html

Rafael can help your more than me though, but good luck on your new phone whatever it may be!! Hope you join us in helping make the Commando community bigger!!

Extended warranty?

I would save that money....expecially if you plan to root the phone.
That warranty will be void if they discover you rooted. it.

Besides.....that next great device is normally only a year or two away.

I consider the Commando a good device...made better by rooting.
Even without a warranty, I think it should outlive most other phones.

I have never been disappointed with the Commando. Even though there aren't any custom ROMs available for it, there are some tweeks that can be done to the phone to make it perform as well as probably most anything on the market right now.

I am a firefighter and I farm. I carry my phone in the pocket of my bunker coat during fires and I carry my phone in my pants pocket while driving tractors and working outdoors. It gets wet, it gets dirty, it gets sweaty, it gets sooty, it gets greasy, but I don't worry much about it. It continues to work. I don't dunk it in water and and I don't slam it around. If you regularly submerge in water or slam any device that has a large sheet of glass for a face on asphalt its probably not going to be good for it. Only a fool would expect a manufacturer to warrenty a device mishandled in such a way - they would go out of business in short order if they did.

I try not to open the USB port or the earphone port unless absolutely necessary - the charging cradel and bluetooth devices really negate the need to open these up. I figure that the little rubber seals will not handle much movement and I really would prefer to keep the water resistance intact as much as possible.

Get one, root it. Remove the files that are listed elsewhere on this forum and use your phone where ever you are without the fear of it no longer working. Wifi tethering works as well as any other 3g device. Flash works, Slacker works, the camera takes as good of photos as any other camera phone. Battery life is consistent with every other android phone I have had - the more you keep the screen lit up and the radio working the shorter the battery life will be. I've just starting playing with the v6 supercharger script. I haven't noticed a great improvement because the phone seemed pretty good to start with. Reception performance is adequate in my area. I think the signal meter tends to under report signal strength as it works well with two or less bars, while other phones on the network at the same location display more bars.

Like most things you read on the internet, your personal experience may vary. My experience has been good, yours might not and I can't be responsible for that.

DFD01 said:

Here's the deal. At this very moment (like today and tomorrow) I'm considering taking over a friend's contract w/ the unlimited plan. I'll get the two month old (pristine...literally) Droid Incredible 2 from him for free (includes Otterbox Defender, car charger, orig. box), but at the same time I might order a brand new Commando from eBay for $300 or $350 and sell this Droid Incredible for $300. The upsides are that I get the unlimited data plan grandfathered, I have the opportunity to try both phones, I am spending less than if I got a grandfathered plan and had to buy a phone outright, and finally, buying a Commando from eBay I have the opportunity to put a two year SquareTrade warranty on it.

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Just out of curiosity, what is the name of that UNLIMITED DATA plan you're talking about? I'm sure it's an older plan, but I'd still like to know.
I currently have the unlimited data CONNECT PLAN, but Verizon is telling be that it won't work with a smartphone. Are they BS'ing me?

The main difference is the screen response to touch. The Commando is a little harder to press because the screen is a little thicker. Otherwise, I would sell the Droid X before selling the Commando. I can take the Commando to the shower with me and drop it off the top of the shower, about a 5' drop, several times, and it keeps working. I don't know what it is about all the smartphones, other than the Commando, but if you drop it one time, the 3.5mm jack starts giving trouble. I hate that. It has happened with every smartphone I have owned since 1998, starting with the Palm flip smartphone. I guess the plug has never really been welded enough to hold the weight of the plug. My Droid X is slightly damaged for this reason. The Commando is my dream phone, as far as I am concerned. I can't wait to accedentally bury it in some wet concrete, and take it out, wash it and it still be working. Wonderful.
The Droid X would fall apart, like most other smartphones. After the update, the copy and paste on the Droid x is terrible. Too many clicks. The Commando is still quicker in that respect. I watch videos on the commando all the time. Check out my video underwater at youtube channell CasioCommandoFun Photo Gallery works just fine on the Commando.