HTC is a disappointment Touch Pro review

[brianmackey]

Originally Posted by hammodie

Oh wow were do i start with the Pro... well the first day i got the phone is worked great for about a week or so and then the problems started piling up.
1. battery of course halfway through the day and my phone already needs re-charging!
2. the actual speaker is very low, and the volume hard key gets stuck all the time and the screen will not stop flashing between dial pad and ringer pad.
3. Became extremely slow after a while navigating thru programs and even trying to close programs down. The phone also shuts it self off when it feels like it and most of the time i don't realize this until i come to make a phone call, i have been missing phone calls left and right because this phone constantly shuts itself off and this becoming so annoying having to deal with it.

I only have one sensorlock installed on here and before that install if was acting up anyways. i got this phone last month and already the battery case is starting to loose its color fading into somewhat violet color .....wow

I don't know if this is a lemon or what but honestly I am very disappointed with this phone, i ran away from my mogul to something worse. This phone is pretty on the outside but full of problems on the inside and it just might be my last HTC i purchase tsk tsk ...... Theres more problems but i think i would need to write a book with them all ....... how do u guys feel about this phone?? Is it just this one or are they are going to start doing this soon??

I am on my 4th one in as many weeks, the build quality is my main issue Once I got some help from the folks here on customizing, (no roms) but some tweaking, Im happy with the way it runs, (unsure about roms right now) Folks dont want to hear, help, I cooked my phone , what do I do now so for me its the poor quality control I dont care for, keyboard backlights do not light up the keyboard evenly, home key panels do not stay level with the screen, noisey battery cover somewhat fixed with foam, and god forbid to hand yopur phone to someone and they try to open it like a TILT! it springs the hinges and the phone wont lay flat, of course there is the rest of the hardware lsit already mentioned, camera button or lack of etc. All In all it beats the mogul, but If I would have had to lay out cash for this phone I wouldnt do it. My 2 cents ( putting soapbox back under the bed )

I cannot complain too much as I got it by just trading in my Mogul after 6 months, but I wish this phone had the mogul build quality.

[CozBoogie]

Moved to the general Touch Pro Forum.

late,
Coz

[DaPeeps]

Originally Posted by hammodie

Yah i guess new rom is one way to go but i wish just for once something would work the way it was made to work and why didnt htc put more thought into this phone it would have made a world of diiffrence.. what rom you guys using??

LOL Welcome to Windows Mobile......

At any rate...do what everyone is telling you and flash a custom rom. It really does improve the phone a LOT. But still...expect this type of thing with Windows Mobile...its just the reaility of it. I undsertand you had a good experience with the Mogul...and thats great....but its also rare (to take a winmo phone out of the box and use it as is with no tweaking or flashing). I also had a mogul..and I despised the damn thing.....but mostly for its clunkiness.

Also, if the speed of the phone annoys you, try disabling touchflo3d and using some other ui or today plgins. I am anxiously awaiting poiuntui 2..once its out i am done with touchflo3d....

[spaceboy]

Originally Posted by hammodie

Oh wow were do i start with the Pro... well the first day i got the phone is worked great for about a week or so and then the problems started piling up.
1. battery of course halfway through the day and my phone already needs re-charging!
2. the actual speaker is very low, and the volume hard key gets stuck all the time and the screen will not stop flashing between dial pad and ringer pad.
3. Became extremely slow after a while navigating thru programs and even trying to close programs down. The phone also shuts it self off when it feels like it and most of the time i don't realize this until i come to make a phone call, i have been missing phone calls left and right because this phone constantly shuts itself off and this becoming so annoying having to deal with it.

I only have one sensorlock installed on here and before that install if was acting up anyways. i got this phone last month and already the battery case is starting to loose its color fading into somewhat violet color .....wow

I don't know if this is a lemon or what but honestly I am very disappointed with this phone, i ran away from my mogul to something worse. This phone is pretty on the outside but full of problems on the inside and it just might be my last HTC i purchase tsk tsk ...... Theres more problems but i think i would need to write a book with them all ....... how do u guys feel about this phone?? Is it just this one or are they are going to start doing this soon??

I just got my Touch pro in Dec. At first I made the same comments that you did. After, being on this forum everyday since December, the best advice I can give is to:

1. Hard reset your phone a couple times
2. For battery life, let it run all the way down and recharge a couple of times. I fly RC planes, and the batteries are the same, they must be trained.

After doing the above the phone is good inside and out (performance wise). My battery would not make it through a day until I did number 2, now I can go a day and a half without recharge. I am running stock Alltell ram. So far as the discoloring, I did not have that problem, but did have chipping chrome. I put on the seido cover and don't see it anymore.

It should have been good out of the box, but with any new product, the wrinkles have to get ironed out. For me it is a keeper..

[Genjinaro]

Originally Posted by DaPeeps

LOL Welcome to Windows Mobile......

At any rate...do what everyone is telling you and flash a custom rom. It really does improve the phone a LOT. But still...expect this type of thing with Windows Mobile...its just the reaility of it. I undsertand you had a good experience with the Mogul...and thats great....but its also rare (to take a winmo phone out of the box and use it as is with no tweaking or flashing).

LOL! Quoteworthy...

I love WinMo or better yet, my exp with it.

[princejv26]

I love this phone but the battery makes me wanna throw it away. I only spoke on the phone for 20 minutes one day and the battery completely died after 4 1/2 hours of it being fully charged.

[hammodie]

Originally Posted by DaPeeps

LOL Welcome to Windows Mobile......

At any rate...do what everyone is telling you and flash a custom rom. It really does improve the phone a LOT. But still...expect this type of thing with Windows Mobile...its just the reaility of it. I undsertand you had a good experience with the Mogul...and thats great....but its also rare (to take a winmo phone out of the box and use it as is with no tweaking or flashing). I also had a mogul..and I despised the damn thing.....but mostly for its clunkiness.

Also, if the speed of the phone annoys you, try disabling touchflo3d and using some other ui or today plgins. I am anxiously awaiting poiuntui 2..once its out i am done with touchflo3d....

Oh i didnt say i didn't say that i had good experiences with the mogul, i was just stating that i ran away from it becuz i got tired of dealing with it and went to the pro and it just was not what i expected. mogul should have been banned the day it came out. btw i havent had this pro for 30 days yet if i go to the srint store will they replace it with a new one again since the 30 days have nto p***** yet cuz i really dont want a refurbished one.........

[housinit]

Originally Posted by brianmackey

I am on my 4th one in as many weeks, the build quality is my main issue Once I got some help from the folks here on customizing, (no roms) but some tweaking, Im happy with the way it runs, (unsure about roms right now) Folks dont want to hear, help, I cooked my phone , what do I do now so for me its the poor quality control I dont care for, keyboard backlights do not light up the keyboard evenly, home key panels do not stay level with the screen, noisey battery cover somewhat fixed with foam, and god forbid to hand yopur phone to someone and they try to open it like a TILT! it springs the hinges and the phone wont lay flat, of course there is the rest of the hardware lsit already mentioned, camera button or lack of etc. All In all it beats the mogul, but If I would have had to lay out cash for this phone I wouldnt do it. My 2 cents ( putting soapbox back under the bed )

I cannot complain too much as I got it by just trading in my Mogul after 6 months, but I wish this phone had the mogul build quality.

Why is it that I don't have any of these issues that people are always mentioning. Like the noisy battery cover? Or keys that dont stay level with screen. The camera button can be setup to function like a normal camera button (or rather the "action" key if you dont want to call it a camera button).

I'm not getting defensive, I just think that the build quality of the phone is quite nice. Can't really help if some retard tried to pull the screen open the wrong way and bent the hinges, thats just plain stupidity. My only real gripe is the volume buttons, you can never really tell if you're pushing them or not and battery life. And the keyboard lights? Not really that big of gripe. I can still see all of them in the dark as opposed to my old 6700 which i could not see jack. I would rather have the keyboard lights be *slightly* uneven than sacrifice battery life for a couple more LEDs under there.

I think HTC has made some major strides when it comes to improving the Windows Mobile hardware platform. Crap, look at their phones just 2 years ago. In another 2 years they'll probably have something that we'll all be really happy with. I'll keep on throwing cash their way so they can keep on R&Ding.

Once the new version of Windows Mobile comes out, mobile 7, we might be happier also. MAYBE. And we'll definitely be happier when the new NANOTECHNOLOGY lithium ion batteries go into consumer production in a couple years. That will make the same size lithium ion battery last at least 10 times as long. They'll be able to package 13000mah in the same size package as our 1300mah battery. Can't wait for that! Imagine not having to charge your phone for over a week!


--housinit

[Addicted23]

Originally Posted by hammodie

Yah i guess new rom is one way to go but i wish just for once something would work the way it was made to work and why didnt htc put more thought into this phone it would have made a world of diiffrence.. what rom you guys using??

It is irresponsible of Sprint/HTC to put the phone out like it is.

The average user has no idea custom ROMs exist...... in fact, they don't even know what they are.

A phone should be functional and dependable out of the box.

[housinit]

Actually, heres a quote about the nano batteries from an article I read a few months ago.

"This past week, Yi Cui, assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford, announced success in expanding the energy storage capacity of lithium ion batteries by using silicon nanowires for the anode, which in current batteries are typically made of carbon. Silicon’s advantage over carbon is that it has a much higher energy capacity. However, silicon's drawback has been that as it absorbs positively charged lithium atoms during charging, it swells and then shrinks during discharge, resulting in cracks. Cui’s research shows that while the silicon nanowires still expand and contract, they don’t fracture. Use of silicon nanowires results in a 10x increase in energy storage, with the potential to last for over 1,000 cycles. (Actually laboratory cycles are currently in the tens, rather than thousands of cycles.)"