Picture of SMS, new battery, call quality?

[Sugarkryptonite]

Hey guys

I might be buying an Atrix tomorrow and I was just wondering if anyone could post a picture of the threaded-SMS that's on the Atrix...

I'm also wondering what I'm suppose to do with this battery? I heard there is like a procedure to getting it to charge to its full potential when you first get it. Like drain the battery completely, charge all the way up, and then never let the battery go under 20% in daily use?

And lastly, how is the call quality on this phone? I've seen a lot of reviews and have been researching this phone for a couple weeks now and I have seen tons of mixed reviews about it...some people say it's horrible some people say it's crystal clear.

I might have some more questions when I think of them.

Thanks,
Elliott

 

[Clienterror]

I've never even seen the stock sms because I've always used "go sms" so I can't comment on it.

With the battery there is no need to discharge it a ton on the first day, I just recommend charging it full before you use it. Modern lithium batteries don't have a memory. As you break in the battery over a week you'll get better and better battery life.

I've found the call quality to be superb. On my captivate people sounded hallow, where as the atrix sounds really full.

These are just my .02 hope you enjoy your phone, I sure do.

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[Sugarkryptonite]

I've never even seen the stock sms because I've always used "go sms" so I can't comment on it.

With the battery there is no need to discharge it a ton on the first day, I just recommend charging it full before you use it. Modern lithium batteries don't have a memory. As you break in the battery over a week you'll get better and better battery life.

I've found the call quality to be superb. On my captivate people sounded hallow, where as the atrix sounds really full.

These are just my .02 hope you enjoy your phone, I sure do.

Sent from my MB860 using Tapatalk

Thanks.

What I'm more interested in is how the phone sounds to other people!

Elliott

 

[mapobean]

I think the phone sounds great. My father has it and I talk to him everyday. I can't even tell when he has me on speaker, it's clear crisp and I can even hear tge conversations behind him. My father bought tge phone for me because I did not want to use my upgrade. He lives a few states away and I haven't gone to visit and trade him phones but he loves it and let me tell you this is his first cell phone.

 

[SpeeDemon]

Android has a text file that monitors battery performance and will adjust your percent remaining based on the file. This is the only reason you need to fully discharge the phone, or you will wonder why the damn thing only lasts a few hours. Some custom bootloaders allow you to delete this file to start fresh, but it seems on this one they only way to do so is a factory reset.

The default chat application is a bit of a snore, the standard chat bubbles seen on iPhone. Coming from a Sense device with a nice threaded sms app, I was let down.

Call quality is stellar, even in poor signal areas. The noise cancelling is adjustable quite easily, and at standard settings is powerful enough to completely block out my cat meowing loudly at my feet (the caller was unable to hear him, I asked)

 

[live4nyy]

Android has a text file that monitors battery performance and will adjust your percent remaining based on the file. This is the only reason you need to fully discharge the phone, or you will wonder why the damn thing only lasts a few hours. Some custom bootloaders allow you to delete this file to start fresh, but it seems on this one they only way to do so is a factory reset.

The default chat application is a bit of a snore, the standard chat bubbles seen on iPhone. Coming from a Sense device with a nice threaded sms app, I was let down.

Call quality is stellar, even in poor signal areas. The noise cancelling is adjustable quite easily, and at standard settings is powerful enough to completely block out my cat meowing loudly at my feet (the caller was unable to hear him, I asked)

I don't understand how a text file that monitors the battery would effect how long the battery actually lasts. It would just be "off" until it gauges it right, other than that your battery should last just as long regardless.

 

[SpeeDemon]

I don't understand how a text file that monitors the battery would effect how long the battery actually lasts. It would just be "off" until it gauges it right, other than that your battery should last just as long regardless.

It means that the phone will be reporting you have 5% battery left when you probably have 20+% left, so people will plug it in rather than let it discharge. Thus why you let it discharge so that it tracks battery performance correctly.

 

[Sugarkryptonite]

Cool good to know.

I tried out the phone today along with the Galaxy S and I have to say the first thing I noticed is that the icons on the Atrix seem very small...probably because of the higher resolution but damn, I'm only 18 and have pretty good vision and they weren't hard to see but still not easy.

I also found the virtual keyboard to be total garbage...maybe it was just the promo device that was on display but it seemed like the buttons on the sides of the device were basically unresponsive to my touches and so was the settings key on the bottom left of the phone.

Using the Navigator app it crashed twice while loading and had to be force closed...no idea why. Anyone else have this problem?

Also while using the phone (it was plugged in the whole time obviously), it got quite hot...is this normal of having it plugged in charging or is it just normal function? It got DAM hot!

Other than that I didn't really do much else on it to be honest.

Bell is going to release the HTC Incredible S on their network supposedly April 4th so what I am thinking is buying the Atrix on maybe Tuesday, which gives me 14 days to return it, which will bring me to about April 12th, which should give me plenty of time to try out the HTC at the store to see if I want to return the Atrix. What do you guys think?

Elliott

 

[neotekz]

I don't understand how a text file that monitors the battery would effect how long the battery actually lasts. It would just be "off" until it gauges it right, other than that your battery should last just as long regardless.

i think he is referring to batterystats.bin file. not sure about the atrix but my captivate used to forget where 0% and 100% charge was and needed to be calibrated. havent needed to do that with the atrix though.

 

[Sugarkryptonite]

Bump. Can anyone else add anything? Check out my post above (#8)

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12340064&postcount=8