2 months with the Vibrant - I think I'm done

[aeok18109]

root

than hit up Team Whiskey

you will love the device than. 24+hrs on single charge

 

[YMark]

XXSun, you make some good points. I've done most of the things you suggest. A couple of days ago, I flashed a FROYO rom and battery life has improved.

I'm going to continue on this rom and see if things are better.

Aeok, I'm not sure what Team Whiskey is, but I'll check it out. I've been rooted since day one.

 

[nemesys06]

i have never had a problem with the screen being a smear magnet. it is lightyears better than any other touchscreen i have ever had. sure, you will get smears on the screen with any touch screen, however the vibrant cleans off with no effort. even just a simple light swipe with your shirt and it looks like new.

 

[bootsie]

root

than hit up Team Whiskey

you will love the device than. 24+hrs on single charge

Couldn't agree more. I can easily get 30 hours out of a single charge. Just have to out in the time to research.

 

[happy0506]

consider another android phone. i had a vibrant for two weeks and returned it. it was my second android phone and it had issues that i didn't have on my previous phone (mt3g). i switched to another android phone and am very happy.

the vibrant burns the the battery extremely fast compared to other android phones. must be that beautiful screen (the only thing i really liked about the vibrant). also, could be that the vibrant is still on 2.1. friend of mine has a droid incredible and they were updated to 2.2 about a month ago and he said his battery life increased by about 30%. when samsung finally updates to 2.2, vibrant users will probably get a significant boost in battery life. sad that it looks like samsung is about to release a new phone (nexus s) with the new 2.3 gingerbread and vibrant users aren't even current yet.

i use gmail, but i've heard that for $20 you can get an app called touchdown that syncs with outlook and works fantastic. a little pricey for an app, but probably a lot cheaper than switching carriers / phones.

if you're on tmobile, i would suggest one of the htc android phones. had the mt3g, great phone in its time and now on the nexus one. also, the mthd and the g2 are getting very positive reviews.