I just finished up my AT&T contract and started my Sprint contract 2 weeks ago with a Moment. Hardware wise, the phone is great and runs smooth. I just could not put up with the battery life and GPS problems (experienced the Airplane mode problem once as well). Since I was well within my initial 30 day starting period, I turned the phone back in and canceled my contract. I refuse to pay for such a poor product. That is the only way I could think of telling Samsung and Sprint that they are failing us. For those of you that can put up with and/or over look these problems only support them. I really do like the Moment, I just can not tolerate it. Not to mention, I have owned Samsung phones in the past and know all about their spotty support and updates. If they officially announced that they would update the phone to 1.6 or 2.0, then I would have kept it, but their silence tells me they will not.
My Moment is finished
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Thank you Ramiss, I am completely aware of the actual problem with the battery level indications, it's the fact that it is there and Samsung let the phone ship with the problem that really aggravates me and their lack of support. HTC lets their customers know that the Hero will get a 2.0 update.....Samsung, nada. That irks me. I am irked. I don't like to pay to be irked.
As for the GPS, it's a coin toss. It's either right on and working fine or it takes about 5-10 minutes for it to find a signal. aGPS has been turned off since day one. Again, not a huge a problem but it irks me none the less...(not the mention the fact that aGPS does not work at all...)
As for the GPS, it's a coin toss. It's either right on and working fine or it takes about 5-10 minutes for it to find a signal. aGPS has been turned off since day one. Again, not a huge a problem but it irks me none the less...(not the mention the fact that aGPS does not work at all...)
aGPS uses your cell phone signal to get a estimate on your position.
Phones that are capable of aGPS can give you an immediate update on your approximate location until the GPS locks in and gives you a more accurate reading.
As for the compass.....no clue.
Phones that are capable of aGPS can give you an immediate update on your approximate location until the GPS locks in and gives you a more accurate reading.
As for the compass.....no clue.
Good luck finding a phone that doesn't irk you. Too bad you cancelled your Sprint contract because of it. They have other phones.
I think he'll be quite happy with the DROID. It is a great handset, and VZW does have a pretty solid network.
I'm lucky enough to work for a company that does software for mobile devices, so we get lots of devices in the office to play with.
I didn't like the DROID keyboard as much as I like they keyboard on my Moment. The DROID screen though, is amazing.
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I'm lucky enough to work for a company that does software for mobile devices, so we get lots of devices in the office to play with.
I didn't like the DROID keyboard as much as I like they keyboard on my Moment. The DROID screen though, is amazing.
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That's funny! A lot of Droid users are having the same GPS issues that we are. No phone is perfect on initial release. I do agree that Samsung doesn't have a good history with updates, but I have faith in them this time.
I think what toefer was asking--and what I would like to know as well--is do you have to be in a certain application or mode to calibrate the compass (spinning it as above), or can you just do it in the home screen? Do you need to have a compass app open at least? Does anyone know that?
The compas stuff was wierd. the program i was using kept telling me it was out of calibration. Even though I had calibrated it.
So i duno.
if you do every axes quite a few times, it eventually figures out whats going on, but I dont think the software is caipable of fully utilizing the compass yet.
So i duno.
if you do every axes quite a few times, it eventually figures out whats going on, but I dont think the software is caipable of fully utilizing the compass yet.
Yeah, that's what I was wondering. I guess I can do it on the home screen, and also do it while having GeoBeagle running, and hope maybe it had some sort of affect.
Eh not really... It's big... has a higher resolution because of the size. Hold them next to each other with the same content displayed and it's no contest. Sharpness, colors, contrast... The Moment's AMOLED is just better.
And the build quality on the DROID is terrible... really just feels cheap in-hand.
Got my moment on launch day, returned it 30 days later due to it en
tering airplane mode about once a day at random times. This new samsung moment I have was working perfectly but a few mins ago it lost connection and had to reset it, I really hope it doesn't happen again, I love my Amoled screen!!
tering airplane mode about once a day at random times. This new samsung moment I have was working perfectly but a few mins ago it lost connection and had to reset it, I really hope it doesn't happen again, I love my Amoled screen!!
OMG.....I got a chance to play with the Droid. What a cheap piece of garbage. All this thing had going for it is 2.0. And I still had time to to swap my Moment out for the Droid but chose to keep it and bet on the updates.
And something I dont get...why people feel the need to come to a Moment forum and let us all know they gave up over the very items we all know are issues and expect to get fixed. It's like golfer's I golf with that say the game is too hard and give up. Well, then bye! Like we are all going to follow the Pied Piper and flock to Sprint stores for an exchange.
we know there are issues with the phone but overall....it's a great phone. So, if you dump the Moment, just dump the Moment forum's. No one give a shat but u!
NO WAIT! DON'T GO!!! PLEASE!!!
OH NO!!! TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!
Seriously though. If the product doesn't meet your expectations, you should definitely dump it! I encourage you to make sure they know you dumped it. Rave to Samsung about why you dumped it. Get it all off of your chest. The end result can only put everyone involved in a better situation
But raving to us here isn't going to help anything.
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