Optimus S Review??

[mdwright1032]

I love this phone. I am coming from an ipod touch (iphone without contract) and this by far is a better device. I have a lot running on marketplace and it still rocks.

 

[hotpinkberry]

Pros: Great size. Love the swipe screen. Good Buttons.

Cons: EVERYTHING Else.
First one froze in 1st 24 hrs. and even the Sprint techs couldnt fix it.
Then 2nd one froze in 12 hrs., but I googled the prob., found this site, and was able to fix.
Having constant SD card probs., so advice has been to get a new one & re format, which I will do.
Constantly tells me my phone memory is full, even though its not, and I havent added anything new to make that mess appear.
Constantly unable to text/rec texts for days because it says "text mem is full" even thought its totally empty.
It constantly reboots and turns off for no reason.
I have to remove battery to reset almost daily. This started happening 2 days after the 30 day Sprint warranty. Their reply was that I should have purchased the replacement insurance, so would not help me.

I wish you luck, as it seems some here think its the greatest thing since the wheel. To me, 2 diff phones in a week that have same problems, means its trash!

I wish I kept my old Palm Centro. It didnt do anything fancy or have Android, but the call/phone was Excellent.

wow. sounds like you got a lemon. they didnt give you a new phone? i did hear that it has sd card problems, but that can be solved with a new sd card. as for the other stuff; it sounds like you got a bad one. im sorry to hear that.

 

[hotpinkberry]

Something that's interesting (and most seem to overlook or don't know) this phone has a dual core proc... 600mhz for applications and 400mhz for radio/phone use... that's a big bonus...

It has 512mb of ram as well as 512mb of flash storage... (The Hero, Moment, Intercept and I think transform all have somewhere in the 256-270mb range of ram)... more ram == better experience... with a Hero I routinely found that I had ~ 34mb of ram free... (without running altered memory management)...

With this phone tends to have 180mb of free memory... that will help ALOT.

The one thing I've had a grumble about is that bluetooth doesn't seem to re-connect like I'd expect it to... though with the hero I couldn't get it to pair with my car... and I didn't really use bluetooth with either the Instinct or Moment that I'd had...)

Btw, the above review is good and I'd say accurate.

Oh, and if you load the last.fm app, it seems to cause havoc with the default music player...

duly noted about the last.fm app! thanks for the tip!

 

[digitallove]

Pros: Great size. Love the swipe screen. Good Buttons.

Cons: EVERYTHING Else.
First one froze in 1st 24 hrs. and even the Sprint techs couldnt fix it.
Then 2nd one froze in 12 hrs., but I googled the prob., found this site, and was able to fix.
Having constant SD card probs., so advice has been to get a new one & re format, which I will do.
Constantly tells me my phone memory is full, even though its not, and I havent added anything new to make that mess appear.
Constantly unable to text/rec texts for days because it says "text mem is full" even thought its totally empty.
It constantly reboots and turns off for no reason.
I have to remove battery to reset almost daily. This started happening 2 days after the 30 day Sprint warranty. Their reply was that I should have purchased the replacement insurance, so would not help me.

I wish you luck, as it seems some here think its the greatest thing since the wheel. To me, 2 diff phones in a week that have same problems, means its trash!

I wish I kept my old Palm Centro. It didnt do anything fancy or have Android, but the call/phone was Excellent.

yeah, the recent threads about rebooting/freezing/other issues aside from the SD card thing have me a bit worried that my phone will start doing something crazy any time now. then again, there are a lot of people (like myself and my mom) who have had no issues.

stinks that yours had issues after the warranty expired I looked at sprint's site and it looks like sprint repairs are $35 without the warranty plan, but I'm not sure what they'd do if it's beyond repair.

and thanks scifan for the last.fm app tip! I was looking into downloading it since I am addicted to last.fm but I wasn't sure if it was worth it since I don't really listen to music on my phone. now I'll stay away!

 

[v0mitr0n]

I've gone through two of these phones .. one had a flakey screen, the other would reboot sporadically for no reason. I finally got a good one with no issues. Replacing the stock SD card with a decent one will take care of half your problems.
Root with ThundeRom. Get Pandora. I love this thing.

 

[kalex]

I ran into Last.fm issue. Took me a while to recover my music player. Basically what is happening is Last.fm caches and creates a crap load of small audio files on the sd card which the built in music player insists on indexing and playing them in sequence. End result of this is music player going nuts, force close and when you start it backup it tries to continue its lunacy. I ended up uninstalling Last.fm and deleting all those files but I haven't tried to see if same problem is present in other music apps. Will check it out later.

 

[scifan]

I found that the 3 cubed player works fine...

I should take a look at the other music players...

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