[Q] How do you guys like your blaze? Worth the move from Vibrant?

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Hi
I am a bit bored from my vibrant - especially when it comes to speed (despite running MIUI rom, which is quite snappy compared to stock).

How's the blaze? Worth the hassle? Speed demon? Or just ok?

Here's my take. Kinda drunka and all.

I came from the original Mt3g. 528mhz. Always cyanogenmod though.

Super fast phone. Fast network. The benchmarks that I run place the Blaze way at the top, though I don't know much about that stuff.

Once the ICS update happens if it does, or if an ICS rom happens I'll be thrilled. The phone has plenty of horsepower for me at least.

Being that i upgraded from a Motorola Defy that was even overclocked and still sucked....yea this phone is pretty damn nice. Super fast and no issues with mine. I'm waiting to root and do V6 and all that until ICS comes out so I don't have to go back to stock and all those other things for the real update to work, even with the bloat it does not slow this phone down.

i also came from a vibrant, cm9 and all.

its not that much quicker IMO

if i didnt get this phone for completely free, and had to use my upgrade for it, i would not have gotten it.


i wish the dev community for this phone was stronger but its all good.

Originally Posted by Trev420

i also came from a vibrant, cm9 and all.

its not that much quicker IMO

if i didnt get this phone for completely free, and had to use my upgrade for it, i would not have gotten it.


i wish the dev community for this phone was stronger but its all good.

there is only two ways that is gunna happen, either people step forward and start making things work, or you reach out to devs

The vibrant is out dated and can't come close to touching the blaze/mini s2

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I am also coming from the Vibrant to this, due to my Vibrant not charging anymore. i had an upgrade and will be getting this in the mail by friday. Im also looking to root and flash a custom rom, since i have heard battery life is terrible. If anyone has any advice, please message me.

I kinda regret buying it. I didn't really research the community involvement on the phone, or even really the phone at all. I usually do, but in my situation my previous phone (nexus one) died suddenly, and unexpectedly. I pretty much had to get a phone that day, and I initially balked at the idea of getting a phone that was much larger than what I had.

But, I also wasn't really feeling like dishing out $400+ up front for a phone, so the Blaze was naturally a good option for me, especially since I do prefer GSM phones (cdma networks don't work too well in a lot of buildings I am commonly in) and I was getting fed up with AT&T's slow data speeds.

So it was pretty much between this or an S2, and at the time, the phone was just too large.

Now that I've had the phone for a week or so, running the same OS as my previous phone (one I had for 2 years) while it's true this phone is much faster, I find myself kinda wishing I would have been able to have more of a "wow omg" feeling after owning it.

In short, I'm starting a cash fund just to keep handy for whenever the new nexus line of phone is released. I really preferred stock android before, and I would definitely still prefer it now.

I'd like to see tmobile push out ICS for the phone pretty soon, but seriously, they loaded this thing with so many junk apps, sometimes 2 or 3 apps that do the same freaking thing that android already does, so I'm thinking it's going to be 2 years before they actually push ICS to this phone.

I have removed a lot of the apps with titanium backup pro, but it makes NO SENSE TO ME AT ALL why a carrier would put so much crap on the phone. For crying out loud if I use the stock launcher that doesn't have the ability to hide apps you don't want to see, it took a good 2 minutes just to freaking find what you wanted!

I like being able to flash roms and customize my phone and im worried there isnt going to be much developer interest in this. The S2 was also too large for my liking, and I chose this last minute after my vibrant stopped charging.

What I dont understand is, why are people who dont even have this phone making roms for it? So far theres only 2 and neither of them work. Go figure....

Originally Posted by itsLYNDZ

What I dont understand is, why are people who dont even have this phone making roms for it? So far theres only 2 and neither of them work. Go figure....

I'm guessing because it seems like the number of users with this phone is rather small. There's lots of reasons for it. It's a new model, didn't it come out in March?

It's also available only on Tmobile, and reviewers do nothing but dump the phone in the lower tier bracket because there's nothing "special" about it. They are always like, "meh, it's not tablet sized, so who cares!"

Even the model number is confusing as all get out, not even Tmobile themselves can consistently distinguish between it and the other Samsung phones.