What's a good Android phone?

GatorJ

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Hey J, at any point in time has the wifi toggle switch been greyed out?

There is a known issue with iPhones and wifi where eventually the solder connection comes apart. It could be that the phones are in the early stages of that problem.

Nope. Just drops.
 

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That was a windstream problem though wasn't it? J isn't on windstream, and wouldn't explain why iOS is having the problem and android isnt.
It was a busy DNS server problem.

I've spent about 50 years in the electrical/electronic maintenance field, you have to think "outside the box".
 
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Isn't iOS 10 going to be out in the next two months? J, I would wait for that before you do anything rash.
 

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I'll work on doing this but I'll try the DNS thing first.
I don't know if you said if you have this problem when you leave your home network. Do you have QoS setup on your router? Of course QoS wouldn't account for dropped service. Just a thought.
 

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I don't know if you said if you have this problem when you leave your home network. Do you have QoS setup on your router? Of course QoS wouldn't account for dropped service. Just a thought.

I have it on every Wi-Fi network.
 

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Could be but all of his older iphones didn't have iOS 9.


Good point....if the wifi problem was occurring before mid September 2015 I take it all back as that is the soonest iOS 9 was available as an update.

He stated the problem was happening on the 5c, 5s, and 6 plus, but not on his wife's 6s or whatever it was....just seem strange to be happening on 3 different relatively new phones and in all wifi locations....I have a plain 5 and it works great but I haven't updated 8.3 because 9 is such a memory hog, relatively speaking.
 

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Good point....if the wifi problem was occurring before mid September 2015 I take it all back as that is the soonest iOS 9 was available as an update.

He stated the problem was happening on the 5c, 5s, and 6 plus, but not on his wife's 6s or whatever it was....just seem strange to be happening on 3 different relatively new phones and in all wifi locations....I have a plain 5 and it works great but I haven't updated 8.3 because 9 is such a memory hog, relatively speaking.
I've done restore multiple times as well as network resets. This has been a problem with the 5c, 5s, and 6 plus. My wife has a 6s and doesn't have quite as many wifi issues but I'm done with Apple.
Apple has proprietary dns servers and while you can't change the cellular dns without Jailbreaking you can change the wifi dns. I would try Google's easy to remember 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4

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I have a Samsung s5 and a Iphone 6s... prefer the Android Phone over the iphone. Iphone the iphone is for your basic consumer... doesn't want to have to do much with their phone, and limited customization. The issues (including wifi) I have with my iphone I don't have with my Samsung. My Samsung is faster than my iphone while still be a generation older and having more aps running on it. The user interface for iphone is more friendly for people who like everything on the front screen and some of the common aps are more user friendly on iphone.
 

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Despite your very strange iPhone problems, you'll regret the move to Android. You'll see.

I don't know what Ox is talking about. The Android system is perfectly fine and it allows for greater freedom amongst phones than the proprietary IOS.

while both of these statements are likely true, I'll put my $.02 in for a different point of view. my experience is whichever platform you learn on, or start out with, is the OS you will prefer. more times than not, I have seen iPhone users try Androids, and Android users try iPhones, and both typically do not like it. There are a few who switch and prefer it, but in my experience, this is the exception, and not the rule.

Both are great platforms, but i think with the iPhone you are more limited to what you can actually do. you may be able to better do what you can do with them (matter of opinion i guess), but they are more limited than android to me. I don't think either is a bad option though.

my last 3 or 4 have been Motorola devices, and i have been pleased. the only other android experience I've had for a phone was an HTC, and i liked it too.
of the 7 phones that I'm responsible for financially, the only people that i hear complaints from are the iPhone users. they are always talk'n about problems, or what they wish it could do, yet fiercely loyal cause it's their iPhone. in fair disclosure though, both are female.

in 4 months I will have paid off my current phone (Droid Turbo) and plan to obtain the Moto Z Force.
i think Samsung are great phones, but I don't think they are that much greater to learn the proprietary differences. maybe i'll change my mind in the next 4 months
 

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Wait a few months and go Nexus or newer Sammy product and never look back....

You won't regret it


Aren't you limping along with a LG G3???.....on sprint no less...
 

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Aren't you limping along with a LG G3???.....on sprint no less...

Limping? Hardly....

Still SD801 with 3GB ram...

Unlocked bootloader...can load any kernal or ROM I want...thing is still as fast as it was from day one....

Try to do any of that with your crApple product; good luck with your subpar camera; locked bootloader; and locked into the apple prison ecosystem....AOSP blows it all out of the water
 

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