On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:13 AM, Morgan Blackthorne <[email protected]>wrote:
> I am looking to upgrade the phone, as I've found that despite my best > efforts, the unit simply refuses to stay awake all the time and will drop > the wifi/3g connection and go to sleep at times. While pages get through, > as they operate over SMS, people IMing me often does not. I'm currently > looking at the Kyocera Rise, as it's Android 4.0 based, and has > significantly better specs than the Droid 2. And the physical keyboard > definitely helps a lot with responding to emails or SSHing into a node; > touchscreen typing is often frustrating as I typo all over the place. > I have the Rise. It's a bit flimsy, and it's running Android 4.0 (no upgrades, far as I can tell) and has a few bugs; also, the one I have at least has a broken or disconnected magnetometer (which is only a mild annoyance from my point of view). Some applications don't play well with the keyboard (most common failure mode is that the Fn key doesn't work so you can't enter numbers or symbols); this is thankfully uncommon. Also, it really wants to operate in portrait with the keyboard closed and landscape with it open; some apps will rotate based on orientation, but many will not. It does seem to charge faster than it uses power, even over USB, although this may not be true with very heavy power draw (say, A2DP and wifi active at the same time). On the other hand, it has a removable battery, so an option may be to pop it onto power and then swap the battery. I haven't found a working way to root it yet (I want to install VPN software). xda-developers has a rooter that for me has not yet worked, although I haven't yet worked through the manual instructions instead of the automated script which sometimes fails. It really, really wants you to install a thing called Mobile ID which appears to be a "fancy" customization package. Thankfully, when it did so it saved my home screen configuration so I could go back to it after it installed (and zapped the home screens back to default). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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