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Yeah I've never had to restart or pull the battery, although I've been known to pull the battery from time to time as recommended by many "phone geeks". That reminds me of another point worth noting. The S5 is the last of the reputable removable battery phones, which is what has kept me on the Galaxy series for quite awhile. Also had multiple batteries and standalone charger for my S4, VERY nice feature.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
Pretty much this. I had Verizon since high school but they were so much more, and wouldn't deal with me so I switched to Sprint and pay $38/mo for unlimited everything on a smart phone. At the time, I was paying $90/mo for a dumb phone with Verizon. Verizon has hands down better coverage though.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
Yeah. I can take pictures and make phone calls without too much trouble. I can even send a text message now and then. I've grown to tolerate texting because that's how my company communicates mostly. I'm hardly a phone/tech geek.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
Just a few things I can add specifically because no one else has. I'm not a rooting expert, but offer what little I know. My experiences are also based in having been on a corporate plan for as long as I can remember. I do have a rooted (not unlocked) phone (S4) and corp has no admin rights on it.
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Originally Posted by james_bond_007
We are Verizon and have been for about 13-14 years. Only company we have had except for a brief stint at t mobile. I wanted international calling and data and they have a great plan, unfortunately the service here at home sucked., poor reception, dropped calls all over the place, no signal in the house but the booster they gave us worked great, and about 15 minutes north of town it went to roaming where instead of unlimited data, you got 50MB which I used in all of 45 minutes of sending a couple pictures and needing gps. That was the final straw on top of being sold into a plan that wasn't available to us and was going to be $40 more a month than promised.
we were always droid until this last time around we went with the iPhone's so not much help there, but the integrity of the iPhone compared to droids and other phones I have had is a lot better. We sold our iPad 1 not long ago and the thing still worked great. I can't say that for any droid phone or windows based device I've owned, they seem to have a 2-3 year life expectancy with us.
We have unlimited everything plan and more data then we could use in a month and it about $170 for the two of us. Coverage is great, call reception is great, no roaming, tons of data and good phones to boot.
Some Verizon Info:
They have done away with contracts Online and are soon to do so At the Stores.
Cost w/o Contract:
$40 Activation (New customer)
$20/mo/line
$45/3G shared data (They have other sizes such as Small $30/1G, Med $45/3G, Lg $60/6, and XL $80/$12 ...& more if you need it)
Phones - BYOP or buy at Full Retail (EX: S5 is $552)
Cost w/ Contract
SAME Activation
$40/mo/line
SAME Data
Phones - BYOP or Buy at discount (EX: S5 is $150)
Both about the same for 2 years with Verizon purchased phones.
So I went with NO Contract and bought 2 S4 Mini from a non-Verizon dealer.
Monthly will be 2x$20 + $45 = $85 + taxes/fees (That was about what I was paying at AT&T with 1G Shared Data)
My wife now has reception at work and is now happy with the phone situation.
Did I mention my wife is now Happy ? [Beer]
Something else I should mention: I believe the customer service at Verizon may be a bit better. Why ?
While I was waiting to signup, I talked to another customer about the poor coverage of AT&T at my wife's location.
He said he had issues early on when he lived in the boonies with coverage from Verizon, but Verizon came out and adjusted some things on the tower to provide him great coverage.
He said he later moved and had issues at his new place of employment. They again adjusted some things and he had coverage.
When I got to the counter, I asked the guy about it and was told that Verizon has and will attempt to adjust things if possible and the HE also had this happen to him.
He asked me to make sure I ASK about it, if I find myself having poor signal strength. He said they can rotate the antennas and boost the signal strength (a bit).
He was surprised that AT&T did not offer to do anything like that, since they are actively trying to retain customers.
Honestly I'm fed up with verizon. I'm sitting at Inverness east and can only get analog. I get no 4g at my house in englewood. I've talked to my business rep and he's baffled. They can see ALL and I mean ALL the dropped calls. There is a tower not far from my house.
Granted this is an iPhone and I didn't have these issues prior, but there are HUGE dead spots outside of downtown that I can find anywhere. 225 & alameda. 225 and Parker. University and bellview. Arapahoe and Broadway all the way to race.
Sent by a free-range electronic weasel, with no sense of personal space.
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Originally Posted by Monky
We live in the sticks and Verizon used to have half way decent coverage/service for us, that was the reason we selected them.
About the time the Lollipop update came out the wife started to complain about no service. Spoke with CS and they sent tech to area to check and he said a network extender would be required.
When I bring up that the service has deteriorated CS dances around issue and pretty much blows us off.
We will be changing at least the wife's service.
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Corporate Discounts:
I understand that some are better than others; however, the Verizon store indicated that going forward, most will only apply to the Data Plan...and nothing else.
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Originally Posted by james_bond_007