Had my Vivid for a week and hate it

[Ethan1122]

The four buttons on the bottom of the phone will not light up on auto-brightness, sound on youtube and pandora stop working all the time, and the phone will not go into landscape mode with auto-rotate on. Anyone else have these problems or did I just get a faulty phone?

 

[The Shag]

The Vivid was during a serious HTC lull. I had a Nexus One with incredible build quality and my girlfriend's original Evo was a solid device. At some point, HTC just started sharting the bed. They're going for retribution with their One series, but even those have some caveats.

 

[prissysox]

To actually answer you:
I did not have those problems. The Vivid for me was a good phone and didn't have any annoying issues
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[apoc53]

Yeah, I've seen those issues - AFTER the ICS update. On auto-bright, I noticed it I cover the entire top area of the phone (to cover the face sensor that turns the screen off when you're on a call) the four buttons light back up. I think it's a power save feature that assumes a bright room will illuminate the buttons naturally.

The sound cuts out from time to time, but that seems to be an issue related to an alarm (not notification or alert) going off while some other source is playing sound. Remedy is a reboot and wait for Android to optimize my apps while it upgrades :S

IMO, it's the ICS update that has caused all the issues.

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[Ethan1122]

My phone was died almost all day today, so I charged it up and booted it up and everything seems to be working fine. I don't know what happen but I'm happy for now.

 

[apoc53]

A reboot is just a dose of medicine for mine - too long without one, and the symptoms slowly accumulate again.

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[Mainframe4ever]

For what it's worth, since the ICS upgrade mine might stop taking a charge from the SaFPWR power case on occasion - twice in .. 3 months. I reboot the phone and Android updates occur. Problem solved. Am trying to make a habit to reboot the phone every couple of weeks. The other option is to navigate to 'check for updates' and do that.
-I don't use auto bright as I've read it uses more power. My Vivid (with the power case) will last with GPS actively mapping my route for over 7 hours and still have a charge over 50%.
This is my third HTC, my first Android, and it's the best yet.

 

[OperationA7X]

I HAD the Stock Holiday ICS ROM and yes, its the way that it processes sound that causes the "choppiness". Also, the issue of no sound coming from the phone at times? My phone does that as well, its the OS, and the sounds still work; however, only on HTC Sense apps. For example: I'm using the stock HTC Music app, sound comes out. I use Music Online, and no sound whatsoever. Not even from my games. A reboot helps, so my suggestion is one of two things: Flash a custom ROM and Kernel like I did, or just reboot nightly.