by "Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
Published 06/08/2017 at 16:00
by "Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
Published 06/08/2017 at 16:00
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Inspired by BJohnson’s recent phone-vent, I figured I’d get some phone-shit off my chest too.
I’ll just get a TLDR out of the way first: dropped phone, replaced with same phone, stuck in boot loop, replaced with Note 4, dirty-IMEI, another Note 4, now I’m happy.
Dropped my G3 from about 2.5ft, it landed perfectly flat on my hardwood floor (loud), resulting in a crack across the top of my screen, about an inch down from the top. The touch screen still worked if you squeezed the phone just right, but it only worked below the crack, so I had to go into an app that allows horizontal use to pull the notification bar down, lol.
So I go online and order an almost identical, used G3 on Amazon for $100, I get it and it almost immediately starts boot-looping. So it was from the earlier bad crop of G3's, I learned upon some research. Returned it, semi-pissed at the seller, but things happen.
Not wanting to deal with that again though, I ordered a Note 4 for $180, it arrives in MINT MINT condition, like it was never ever used. I can’t wait to slide my sim card in and get it going, only to find no 4G connection, i call Verizon and find it belonged to someone that still owed money to Verizon, so therefore it follows that they’d hold my phone hostage to get them to pay. I explained that to them and they agreed with my that it was pointless, but it’s policy for them to essentially brick whatever phone that person that owes them money had.
At this point I’m furious at Verizon and furious at the seller for not checking the IMEI. So. I order another Note 4, this time one with a verified-good IMEI on Swappa, it has 2 or 3 minor scrapes, but the price was right at $130. This one seems to be working great! But damn want a pain in the ass.
Oh and I forgot, when I put my sim card in that first Note 4 it actually suspended my phone line, so that was another 20 minutes on the phone with Verizon. On a separate call! The first person failed to mention that my line was suspended.
So, I do really like the Note 4! I’ve always been a big LG fan and always steered clear of Samsung’s more popular line of phones. But the Note 4 is quite a good phone so far! I can totally tell they intentionally make everything look better with a dollop of saturation, but damn, it makes everything POP! It’s fun to try something different.
I didn’t want to plunk down V20 money and I had heard terrible things about the G4, V10 and G5. So here I am with a Note 4! I still get my replaceable battery and SD card storage, so I don’t feel like I completely sold out to the mainstream phone society with its disposable $800 phones. Any Samsung-specific tips?
"MrDakka" (mrdakka)
06/08/2017 at 16:13, STARS: 0
Sounds like you need to clean the butter off your hands XD
Have you thought about getting a shock absorbent case for your phone?
"Slant6" (slant-6)
06/08/2017 at 16:13, STARS: 0
I’ve had a G4, G5, and now I have an S7edge. Of the three my G4 was the best. Least bugs and only reason I had to get rid of it was that my sister broke her 4th iPhone, so my dad, realizing I had never broken a phone decided to give her the s4 (which she hated and eventually broke) and got me an s5 (this was right when the s6 came out, so under contract the s5 was only like $50.
I liked the S5 alright, it was nice having a waterproof phone. It had a few bugs but was pretty good. Really never let me down.
S7 is also really nice, but things are just different. Battery life is much better than the S5. I almost got a Pixel, but the S7e had water proof and micro SD going for it.
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
06/08/2017 at 16:18, STARS: 0
Yeah, I was happily chugging along with my G3, it was still doing everything I expected it to do and it was keeping up relatively well with the latest and greatest. I may still try to find a G3 with known bootlooping problem and swap the motherboard from my bad-touchscreen one in.
Glad to hear someone be positive about the G4! Haha. I actually steered clear of it when I bought my used G3 the first time around.
"Nauraushaun" (nauraushaun12)
06/09/2017 at 02:26, STARS: 0
If you wanted a flagship without spending flagship money, you should’ve gotten a oneplus 3T! Sorry to hear it went so badly
"Yowen - not necessarily not spaghetti and meatballs" (yowen)
06/09/2017 at 08:26, STARS: 0
I would’ve liked a Oneplus, but I don’t think that would work on Verizon. And I am satisfied with the Note 4.