Having now had the phone for nearly a month, it has been almost everything I expected my next phone to be. I've not had a single issue with overheating, bootlooping or any other issues others seemed to have encountered.
That's not to say that the phone's been perfect. I don't like the fact that there's no option to manually turn of the soft key lights. I also realized that once you sent up a gmail account using the stock email app, you CANNOT delete it w/o doing a factory reset. But all my issues are rather minor ones like this.
The common theme is that everything that bothers me about the phone can be fixed with root. But there's the rub since we don't have root yet. For the first month I had the rezound, I was so enamored with its screen, smaller form factor, beats audio and other cool things that not having root didn't really bother me. But it's beginning to now a little bit. I guess, I'm just too much of a tinkerer not to have a rooted phone. I like being able to debloat, change my system font, customize my status bar, flash custom roms, etc.
Just to give you some idea of how important root is to me, I'm now considering trading the rezound in for the GNex. Honestly, I could careless about ICS, NFC, the Super-Amoled screen or any of the other things the GNex has. And I know the size will be an issue. For comparison, I went to check out the LG Nitro on AT&T, which is almost identical in size to the GNex (same width and nearly the same thickness) and shares a very (and I mean very) similar form factor. It's a big phone for sure. The GNex is 1 and a half mm taller, which makes it even bigger. I don't know if I can handle the size. But it's rootable right now.
As I wrote in another post, I'll definitely check out the GNex when it drops. But since I have until January 15 to exchange, I'm in no rush to do so just yet. My hope is that a method for perm-root will be out by then.
Like I said, I love the rezound very much. I've championed this phone since the first day I had it. It's a quality device that has done everything I've thrown at it. For anyone who doesn't care about rooting, I think it's the best device on verizon and that includes the GNex. But I never realized how much I'd miss root and really don't want to be stuck with a phone that is unrootable.
Anyone else feel the same way?
That's not to say that the phone's been perfect. I don't like the fact that there's no option to manually turn of the soft key lights. I also realized that once you sent up a gmail account using the stock email app, you CANNOT delete it w/o doing a factory reset. But all my issues are rather minor ones like this.
The common theme is that everything that bothers me about the phone can be fixed with root. But there's the rub since we don't have root yet. For the first month I had the rezound, I was so enamored with its screen, smaller form factor, beats audio and other cool things that not having root didn't really bother me. But it's beginning to now a little bit. I guess, I'm just too much of a tinkerer not to have a rooted phone. I like being able to debloat, change my system font, customize my status bar, flash custom roms, etc.
Just to give you some idea of how important root is to me, I'm now considering trading the rezound in for the GNex. Honestly, I could careless about ICS, NFC, the Super-Amoled screen or any of the other things the GNex has. And I know the size will be an issue. For comparison, I went to check out the LG Nitro on AT&T, which is almost identical in size to the GNex (same width and nearly the same thickness) and shares a very (and I mean very) similar form factor. It's a big phone for sure. The GNex is 1 and a half mm taller, which makes it even bigger. I don't know if I can handle the size. But it's rootable right now.
As I wrote in another post, I'll definitely check out the GNex when it drops. But since I have until January 15 to exchange, I'm in no rush to do so just yet. My hope is that a method for perm-root will be out by then.
Like I said, I love the rezound very much. I've championed this phone since the first day I had it. It's a quality device that has done everything I've thrown at it. For anyone who doesn't care about rooting, I think it's the best device on verizon and that includes the GNex. But I never realized how much I'd miss root and really don't want to be stuck with a phone that is unrootable.
Anyone else feel the same way?
). However if you are intelligent enough to be able to browse the web and never have a virus downloaded, and only minor malware (viscious cookie level) hit you. You are observant enough to be able to use root access successfully.
