Recent content by Kawboy12R

Thanks for the input. I don't talk much most of the time, mostly on-device music/podcasts plus work/play screen-on time. I didn't need a second charger for a whole year when I got my current phone til I tried running gps nav for hours with no car charger. I still made it until suppertime that...

I'm a bit surprised that nobody runs or is willing to run GSam to get an actual battery life average. Anybody?

Anybody run GSam on their S10e? I'm looking for a new phone but don't want to go backwards on battery life from my current phone. Here's a recent screenshot of my current phone's lifetime screen on history. I've seen some posts on here with people happy with 4.5-5 hours SOT. My lifetime avg is...

I consider a phone without a case to be a second away from being a crunchy glass brick. YMMV.

Well, I got my Z Play and have started giving it some testing. Battery life is phenomenal. I don't think I'd ever kill a battery in a day unless possibly I used it all day on max screen brightness. At home on Sunday I started using it at 5am for an hour or so, caught some more ZZs, used it...

Telus and Koodo are sister companies and use the same towers so that's a good sign for the Moto Z Play. I ordered one on a holiday sale to try out but they're backordered. Might be another week-ish before they get more in unfortunately.

My Tab 2 10.1 has always seemed slow. It's bad enough that I prefer using my S4 over the Tab 2 even at home and my S4 is pretty sluggish. Did a factory reset, no joy. Rooted it in preparation to putting another OS build on it but haven't gone past that yet. I ran AnTuTu benchmark on it and my S4...

I tried the "compare dBm at the store" method. No dice. They had no demo Z Play phones, and their Moto Z demo had no sim card. 15 day try at home period but only 30 minutes of talk time to compare with before they consider the phone unreturnable.

True, but I'm not sure how much of a harsh test it would be. I can almost touch a tower from each of the local stores. Still, if there's a big difference there then that'd be a good indication. If there isn't I'd be skeptical that it means they're the same with faint signal but it might work out...

Have you looked at the dB to compare? There's a place in the settings that shows signal strength like -90dB or -105dB etc. How is it in areas where the other phones had problems rather than just grabbing LTE over 3g? My main problem is getting NO "G". After that it's all gravy.

I'm looking to upgrade from my old Samsung S4. The Moto Z Play hits many of my must-have strong points (great battery life, good screen, good performance, expandable storage, reasonable price) but I haven't seen much online comparing it with other phones in bad reception areas. Both my workplace...